Advanced photography !

[AJHingel]

<p>Philae went to sleep at 0.36 GMT and might not wake up again ! Before then Esa managed to get the detailed results from the analysis of a sample of the comet after drilling the ground. Final act was to move Philae a few centimeters to give it more light for charging its batteries. Esa's hope is, that it wakes up again when the Comet gets nearer to the sun the next months - before burning up due to the increasing heat.<br>

Tim, I don't think that littering the space with gadgets or waste is good for anything else then feeding journalists on earth in search of something to write about, which is less scientific. A picture of a doughnut on the surface of a comet would surely be Breaking News around the world, but it is certain not to advance at any time our knowledge of space.</p>

[MichaelChang]

<p>It's interesting to observe that in those pictures, there are highlights, then there are blacks; there is no surrounding landscapes to reflect light into shadows and I imagine no amount of long exposure is going to extract anything from those black areas. </p>

<p>Space is true black body. </p>