Yesterday ESA released some more navcam images of 67P (no, no new OSIRIS images; why do we even get our hopes up any more? They clearly have no intention of showing us what they’re drooling over on their screens, shame on them…) and they show, when stretched a bit – ok, a lot – that our little icy, dusty buddy is really wide awake now…
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Philae Lander and ESA Publication Policy
ESA has decided to delay the release of the OSIRIS results for 6 month.
The reason is to protect the advantage of being first to publicise
new scientific findings
Well there is a certain rationale supporting such a policy I admit.
I personally support a different handling – anyway.
The question now is how will ESA handle the Philae images.
Since the image resolution is expected to be way higher than OSIRIS
will we have to expect the Philae images SIX MONTH LATER ?
That implies we will see Philae images in May or June 2015
if at all
Remember – the Principal Investigator/OSIRIS
prior to Mr. Sierks (Dr. Uwe Keller)
withheld OSIRIS Images taken during the Mars flyby 2007
for at least FIVE YEARS
Yeah right – for more than half a decade !