“Zay of the Day” 8 years ago, a European spacecraft was named elephants On comet 67p On Nov. 12, 2014, the comet is a cosmic snowball of frozen gas, rock, and dust about the size of an American football field. It is estimated to be larger than most planets. space.
different elephants The orbiter, called Rosetta, was supposed to latch onto the comet’s surface by means of a harpoon, but the harpoons never fired when it landed, and it immediately bounced off into space, the first bounce carrying elephants half a mile above the comet’s surface. comet. The comet brought them down before gravity..
The elephants ran and jumped around the comet for two hours before Rosetta’s cameras lost track and scientists discovered it was stuck in a shady spot where sunlight didn’t reach the solar panels and the batteries lasted more than two days on the surface. So Elephants is still doing some science and it should be noted that he found organic molecules that hadn’t been discovered before on the comet.
