The image shows comet 67P/CG acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on Nov 12, 2014 14:38:41 UT from a distance of approximately 3 km from the surface. The landing site is imaged with a resolution of about 3m per pixel.
This morning the Philae lander separated from the Rosetta spacecraft, descended, and landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Initial word was that the landing harpoons had deployed and Philae was anchored to the surface, but that turned out to be incorrect. The harpoons did not attach to the surface. The lander is apparently unharmed and its software sequence is executing, but it is not correctly anchored and may not be completely stationary. A mission briefing from ESA is expected momentarily.
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Update at 18:43 GMT. Mission briefing postponed for 20 minutes.
Update at 19:10 GMT. Mission briefing has started.
Update at 19:15 GMT. "We are analyzing the data". The lander is alive and sending data. The scientific instruments are working and sending data. So far this is not news.
Update at 19:16 GMT. "It is very complicated to understand what has happened". The anchoring harpoons did not fire. The lander is not anchored to the surface.
Update at 19:17 GMT. There were fluctuations in the radio link. The lander may have lifted off again and begun to turn. The turning stopped two hours later. "Maybe we did not land once, we landed twice".
Update at 19:19 GMT. Expected radio silence right now. We should know more tomorrow.
Update at 19:24 GMT. That's it until 14:00 CET tomorrow. It did seem as though the media briefing was putting the best possible face on a worrisome situation, but the scientists are clearly still trying to understand exactly what has happened and want to get back to work.
Update at 19:44 GMT. It looks as though the livestream feed has shifted to ESA headquarters in Toulouse, which is where the Philae lander data is analyzed. Everybody is speaking French.
Update at 19:53 GMT. Apparently we have some First Science Sequence data from the lander. There are some images from CIVA.
Update at 20:03 GMT. Back to Darmstadt while the images are processed...