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Philae: The Biggest Jump Ever

by hanula on 11/14/14, 1:00 PM with 1 comments

• by udev on 11/14/14, 4:35 PM

  I wonder if it would've been worthwhile to put a flea-like mechanism on Philae to jump around the commet.

  Looks like in that kind of gravity pull, you don't need a lot of force to jump high, and the damage from falling is also much less.