Rosetta’s digital radio makes 500m km seem just a half hour away

Philae lander’s data would mean nothing without speed-of-light communications.

The Philae lander photographed by the Rosetta mothership on the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, some 500m km from Earth. Photograph: ESA handout/Reuters.

and the Philae lander are amazingly complex….


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