Two days ago, I streamed history being made for the first time ever online, and witnessed the Philae lander's touchdown on Rosetta's comet. The journey took 10 years, 6.4 billion kms away from here, and a 7 hour long landing.
Unfortunately, it was an awkward landing where Philae landed approximately 1km away from its intended landing site that currently, one of its 3 legs is not on the surface of the comet and it itself is oriented in a way that no sufficient sunlight is being recieved enough to charge its batteries ever 12 hour rotation.
At the moment, plans to try to "hop" the robot back into a position for enough sunlight are being studied, hopefully in time to execute them before Philae dies out sometime between next Friday and Saturday.
But at the same time, an eerie, creepy "sound" of the comet "singing" has been detected by Philae. Since there are no sounds in space, Philae interpreted variations in the magnetic field out of which frequencies were taken and altered up to the human hearing range since the actual sound was 10,000 times below our range.
This is what it sounds like, Mother Physics!
https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet
