Scientists at the European Space Agency are hoping to make up for lost time, gathering data from a re-awoken robotic space probe.
The Philae lander went into emergency hibernation seven months ago after a botched landing on a comet.
It had been released from its mothership Rosetta in November after a 6.4 billion km journey that took more than 10 years – a mission that cost close to 1.4 billion euros.
Back then the initial joy of the landing was quickly replaced by despondency as no one knew if it would ever start up again.
Incredible news! My lander Philae is awake! http://t.co/VtzAQHx4zT pic.twitter.com/SZqnsnNpUZ— ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) June 14, 2015
Matt Taylor who is a Rosetta project scientist clearly relishes the prospect of getting his hands on some of Philae’s precious data.
“We are going to look and try to repeat some of the operations we did in November, it completed its first science sequence in November, when we first landed. Then it was design
