Check out the European Space Agency’s Rosetta blog, too.

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Last update, November 10, 3:27 p.m. Pacific: Switching over to this week’s Ad Astra post for links to landing coverage.

Update, November 5: The Planetary Society has a page listing all the events and information for next Tuesday’s comet landing.

And there was this little exchange on Twitter today:
 

 
 

 
Update, October 24, 2014, 4:14 p.m.: Wow!
 

 
Also, telemetry data from the Philae lander are here.
 

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Earlier updates

Here’s an animation of Comet 67P by Mattias Malmer – imagine if you had to land a relatively tiny machine on that rotating, gas-jetting comet nucleus!
 

 

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October 8, 2014, 12:31 p.m.: They’re going to deploy the Philae Lander on November 12th. Hopefully it will go as smoothly, although the comet is already starting to noticeably jet as it gets nearer to the Sun. Here is ESA’s latest mission update, from two weeks ago:
 

September 19, 2014, 3:32 p.m.: More jets coming off the comet have been detected coming off 67P.

Also, from earlier this week, a couple of tweets about the Philae Lander’s selected site – scheduled to land November 11 (hope the comet doesn’t become too “gassy” in the meantime:
 

Full story on @philae2014’s landing site, with new images of #67P!: http://t.co/lNrU0hzOoc pic.twitter.com/xKEaRKvWrI

— ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) September 15, 2014

 

Endgültige Landestelle für #Philae auf dem Kometen #67P http://t.co/exiziGIDKd (AW) #Rosetta @Philae2014 pic.twitter.com/2HYyDIuQO7

— DLR_de (@DLR_de) September 15, 2014

 

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