Reply to post: Re: Botched Llanding?!?

Sun like it hot: Philae comet probe wakes up, phones home again

DropBear
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Re: Botched Llanding?!?

"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing..."

Sure, that's one perfectly valid way to look at it, hence no downvote from me. On the other hand, one can equally validly look at it as "the single one good thing about that landing is that the probe is still in one piece and sheer luck has more to do with it than planning does", which justifies the original assessment just fine. In absolute terms, it's an incredible triumph. I relative terms, there's hardly anything that didn't go wrong with that landing.

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