• Question: what did it feel like to see your hardware landing on a comet for the first time?

    Asked by Costy to Dominic on 3 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Dominic Doyle

      Dominic Doyle answered on 3 Mar 2017:


      It was incredibly exciting, as we really did not know whether it would work. After 10 years in space Philae – the lander was very cold! And what a huge surprise we got when Philae bounced twice. But that actually turned out to be a bonus as we got much more interesting data!

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