• The probe originally landed only 10 meters away from the calculated landing zone, but a malfunction in the anchoring harpoons caused them to not fire and the probe bounced off the surface
  • The probe bounced off the surface of the comet a total of three times before finally landing approximately 1 kilometer away from the calculated landing site
  • Mission scientists are looking through NAVCAM images of the comet’s surface to see if they can see where Philae eventually settled

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