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Rosetta Lander - Philae: Landing preparations

Sierks, Holger; Jurado, Eric; Ulamec, Stephan +11 more

Rosetta and Philae have been in hibernation until January 20, 2014. After the successful wakeup they underwent a post-hibernation commissioning. The orbiter instruments (like e.g. the OSIRIS cameras, VIRTIS, MIRO, Alice and ROSINA) characterized the target comet and its environment to allow landing site selection and the definition of a separation…