and then it will beam that to rosetta, rosetta will say "thanks" and beam it back to us a half hour after then we'll see what's going on. >> we're hoping to see images very soon. again, this is such a momentous occasion, tariq, thanks for joining us. we'll have more on this comet that has a new friend, if you will, right after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] even more impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients. morning. morning. thanks for meeting so early. come on in. [ male announcer ] it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. >>> all right. let's head back to germany. we are watching this very special occasion happening here. all of earth's citizens can join the european space agency in celebrating a momentous occasion. fred pleitgen a standing by and learning more about the touchdown of the space probe on to a speeding comet. what can you tell us, fred? >> guys, yeah. i have a very special guest with me. i have mark mccorcoran who is a professor and the senior science advisor for isa and this project. how excited are y

now, it has taken more than ten years for rosetta to reach the comet.ut for the engineers and scientists at the european space agency, the coming hours are what the entire mission is all about. issa sesay shows us what is expected to happen. >> reporter: this week marks the climax of an epic journey across the solar system. with all eyes at the european space agency, keeping a close watch on the rosetta spacecraft. >> we're all of course very excited. everything has to work very well at the right moment. >> reporter: for more than ten years, the rosetta has been chasing after this comet, better known as 67-p. it's a mission that took the spacecraft more than four billion miles and five times around the sun before it finally caught up with the comet in august. now in a first, the rosetta mission will attempt to put a lander on the comet's surface. it will be a nail-biting seven-hour operation. the robotic probe about the size of a washing machine will separate from the main spacecraft and descend toward the comet. scientists are aiming to land on the hea

a seven hour dissent from the mothership, rosetta. -- a seven hour descent from the mothership, rosettathe probe had safely landed on the surface of the comet. >> [speaking foreign language] >> a successful landing was far from certain. the terrain of the landing spot was also no -- unknown. meaning, it may not have been able to attach itself to the surface. as well as that, scientists had to work out how to aim the probe at a 4000 kilometer long target at traveling at 6000 kilometers per hour. it all went to plan. this first image beamed back shows the rosetta probe above. [applause] >> today, we have demonstrated that we are the leading industry and research centers everywhere. we are the first to have done that, and that will stay forever. thank you very much. [applause] >> now it can begin work collecting data. comments were formed at the same time as the planets in our solar system, more than 4.5 billion years ago. scientists hope that examining their makeup could shed light on the origin of planets, and perhaps even life on earth. >> the science desk is standing by for us at esa m

well, within the hour, we should find out if the rosetta spacecraft has passed its last so-called go/no go check so it can proceed its mission to put a lander on to a comet. if all goes well, the actual landing will take place about nine hours from now. the spacecraft has spent more than a decade just traveling to the comet. more than 500 million kill meters away from earth. what is in store in the hours ahead. >> this week marks the epic journey across a solar system. >> we're very excited. everything has to work very well at the right moment. >> for more than ten years, the rosetta has been chasing after this comet, known as 67-p. it's a mission that took the spacecraft more than 4 billion miles and five times around the sun before it finally caught up with the comet in august. now in a first, the rosetta mission will attempt to put a landing on its surface. >> a landing has never been tried on such a small body. so everything is new for us. >> for scientists, it will be a nail biting seven-hour operation. the probe about the size of a wash mag sheen will separate from the main spac

the european space agency has confirmed the rosetta spacecra landed on the probe. the decent is described as one of the most ambitious detected in the exploration. we are at the headquarters in germany. rebecca, explain how incredibly difficult this landing is that it's been released. we're waiting a few hours to see if it hits the comet in the right place. >> everything about this is difficult. even the fact it was released and confirmation it managed to get off the mother ship rosetta was good news. this has been strapped onto the side of that for ten years on the 6.5 billion kilometer journey through the solar system. we has news the rosetta spacecraft are back in contact again. that's really important. it means the scientists can now monitor exactly what's going on during this seven hour decent. it's not going to be an easy ride. it's going to be blasted with ice, dust. touching down will be more difficult. i'm joined by a professor from the open university. you've got one of your instruments on board. it must be good news to know the land is back in touch with

the rosetta probe has done its part, successfully sending it landing craft toward the comment surface after a 6 billion kilometer germany. -- kilometer journey. the vast distance from earth makes it impossible to send instructions and real-time. all centers can do is sit back and watch as it tries to and on the comet as it hurtles through space. >> the vessel can work to maintain its right position in the relation to the surface it landing on. when it touches down the system needs to work properly. the feed will have to fold out properly, too. we were not able to test them for 10 years. >> it will be on the surface of the comet until february, 2015. the goal is to collect data that scientists hopefuls shed light on the building blocks of the universe and perhaps even the source of life on earth. >> the first one, we lost 2.5 days. >> the european space agency says that even if this landing fails, the 1.3 billion euro mission will be wasted. it will be able to perform 80% of the mission solo. >> mark bentley is a principal investigator on the rosetta project. he spoke to us earlier fro

es una hazaÑa difÍcil. >> la nava rosetta saltarÁ maÑana miÉrcoles el mÓdulo de descenso philly paraperficie en ese sitio y mandar la informaciÓn al planeta tierra. >> nuevo desprendimiento se calcula que el aparato demore siete horas en llegar al suelo. >> en quÉ radica el grado de dificultad? >> no hay suficiente fuerza gravitacional en el cometa para que se pueda posar de una manera natural como en la tierra. sino que tienen que utilizar unos ganchos penetrar la superficie eso nunca se ha logrado de una manera exitosa. >> tan escasa es la gravedad del 67p cuerpo de hielo y polvo de 4 km de diÁmetro que si no logran engancharse el suelo del robot saldrÍa disparado al espacio y se perderÍa el cometa se mueve 40 veces mÁs rápido que una bala en movimiento y distinguiÉndolas, polvo y piedras por lo que el diminuto phily enfrenta una labor sin lugar a dudas titÁnica. los expertos calculan que la proverbial Éxito es del 70% tanto los cientÍficos como los ingenieros recalcan que aunque saliera mal la misiÓn rosetta seguirÍa adelante estÁ previsto que la nave continuÓ funcionando hasta fi

esta nave llamada rosetta llegÓ al cometa del tamaÑo de una montaÑa. miÉrcoles que el artefacto del tamaÑo de un electrodomÉstico consiguiÓ posarse sobre un cometa que mide dos millas de ancho y que estÁ bajando hacia el sistema solar. este es un gran paso para la civilizaciÓn dijo emocionado el director de la agencia espacial europea. >> nos va a acercar al entendimiento de la clave de desarrollo de la vida sobre el planeta tierra y en el sistema solar. >> y es que pilli que se habÍa desprendido de roseta va cargando informaciÓn. >> lleva microscopios especializados que van a tomar muestras de la superficie que se van a analizar en ese mismo sitio y los datos van a llegar al planeta tierra. >> la odisea para lograr escudriÑar los secretos del cometa comenzÓ hace 10 aÑos cuando se lanzÓ la rosetta con philly en su interior. >> esta fue la primera foto que se recibiÓ y que capta el momento en que philly se desprende de rosetta. >> este cometa 67-p fue descubierto 1969 y viaja al sistema solar a 55.000 km/h. la rosseta que partiÓ del planeta hace 10 aÑos

in august of this year, rosetta began orbiting this comet. a 2 1/2-mile wide object known as 67-pcg, which like all the come ets and asteroids in our solar system could provide valuable information about the foundational building blocks of our planet. for reference, this is a rendering of the size of the comet compared to los angeles. rosetta has spent three months orbiting the comet which is in itself an important first. orbiting a comet that's moving at 184,000 miles per hour. after finding just the right spot, a landing probe called philae separated from rosetta to begin its seven-hour descent. at 10:30 a.m. eastern standard time that probe successfully landed on that comet, another first for space exploration. scientists believe the har poons may have failed to deploy because the comet has such weak gravitational field, the lander philae might have bounced before coming to rest. it was transmitting data of the rosetta and of the comet itself which scientists expected to be basically spherical, but was, to use their words, duck shaped. gas

the european space agency had been chasing the comet since the launch of the rosetta in 2004. catching up to a comet traveling up to nearly 84,000 miles an hour meant using the gravity of the earth and mars as a sling shot building up speed by swinging around both planets before slinging off towards its target. it finally caught up to the comet in august and began looking for a place to land its probe. >> when they caught up to the comet, they were expecting something about the shape of a potato. instead they found this which has been described as closer to a rubber deck. >> reporter: that made it even more important to find the exact landing location. this comet which is left over debris from the formation of the solar system is two and a half miles wide and weighs 10 billion tons. scientists hope to take samples from the surface and probably shed some light on how the solar system began. cjar;oe began. >> it takes more than 28 minutes for the commands from scientists in germany to reach the rosetta because the space ship is more than 300 million miles from earth. that is sti

rosetta and philae are never returning.eft to transmit that data. they're so far away their transmissions even traveling at the speed of light take 28 minutes to reach earth. light from our own sun takes 8 1/2 minutes to reach us. joining us geoff brumfiel. how, how, how did they do this? >> it took a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of thought. frankly, some luck. they started designing the mission ten years before they actually set out to do it. and it all came down to this morning. they had to get that lander out, gravity pulled it down to the surface, and it appeared to make contact. so i mean, it was really pretty impressive. >> how do you power the thing? is it solar powered the whole way and when it's got too far from the sun it has battery powered stored up to keep going? >> the spacecraft itself is solar powered. that's why they had to shut it off. because it actually got so far from the sun, even its massive solar panels which are like the length of a couple of london buses or something, they couldn't act

filae has attached to the rosetta -- orbited the rosetta for the last decade.sts hope that it will help answer ultimate questions. where did life come from? are we alone in the solar system, john? >> you're never alone because i'm here with you. the problem was just dropped. scientists have no ability to steer it, only the very, very weak gravity only the weak gravity of the surface of the comet is pulling it toward the surface of the comet. >> everything is new for us. it's never landed on such a small body. >> if we have not stated it clearly, this is happening right now. this thing is due to set down within minutes and it's never happened before. you are part of interblack tick history right now. how will this probe land? our frederik pleitgen is standing by live in mission control where scientists are directing this experience. fred, what's going >> if everything has already gone according to plan, this has already set down on the comet. because it's 350 million miles away it takes the signal this thing will transmit after landing about half an hour to reac

rosetta set off ten years ago and traveled through the solar system.ome of the scientists involved have retired including this professor who was the rosetta scientist. you've since retired. what's it like to see this going on? >> that's great. you see all work was worth to do it. things look pretty good so far. it's also great reunion with colleagues. it's a great day for us. it's really promising and great. we are just so excited to see that also the another three and a half hours go well and that little later we hear the sign a that it has landed. >> hopefully. >> i say hopefully. it's tricky. it's complex because it's seven hoursen its own. the release was successful. we picked up the signal which is good. we can follow it on the way down. it will get science data. we have to wait and keep our fingers crossed. we think they have selected a wonderful landing site. if you look closer, there are some nice things there. we have to be really lucky at the end. the landing area is big, 500 meters across. it's not a point landing because of arrows that are

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the space probe rosetta was launched in 2004. it traveled more than 6.6 billion kilometers and three months ago it finally caught up with the comet known as 67p. the probe landed on wednesday after a seven-hour descent from the spacecraft. esa released a virtual treat by rosetta after the philae lander detached. rosetta commented that its back feels chill yafr philae left. and philae replied that it fields like it's floating. the team has confirmed that the harpoons used to anchor the lander to the comet's surface are not working properly. they say the landing site is different from their original plan. and they say they're concerned that the solar batteries may not have received enough sunlight. the comet is believed to to contain substances dating back to the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. scientists hope that samples could provide clues to the origin of comets, our solar system, and earth. >>> joining me in the studio is ai uchida from the business desk. tokyo stock prices have been rising this week. coul

the rosetta space shift released a 220-pound lander that dropped for 7 hours before attaching to a comet. >> this is a big step for human civilization. >> reporter: it's the final stretch of a 4 billion-mile journey. [ non-english language ] >> reporter: the european space agency had been chasing the comet since the launch of the rosetta in 2004. catching up to a comet traveling up to nearly 84,000 miles an hour meant using the gravity of the earth and mars as a slingshot building up speed by swinging around both planets before slinging off toward its target. it finally caught up to the comet in august and began looking for a place to land its probe. when it caught up to the comet they were expecting something about the shape of a potato. instead, they found this, which has been described as closer to a rubber duck. that made it even more important to find the exact landing location. this comet which is left over debris from the formation of the solar system is 2.5 miles wide and weighs 10 billion tons. scientists hope to take samples from the surface and possibly shed some light on how

the lander left the rosetta, the mother ship, left rosetta around midnight our time. there has been a hiccup. part of the active descent system has failed. that's the thruster that's supposed to push it into the comet and keep it from bouncing. now a harpoon and ice screws to keep it from becoming detached. you have one large object moving very fast, a small one trying to get on top. the problem if it were to land on a boulder or slope. an astronomer here is plan b will work and it will be able to land on the comet and gather data the surface of the ball of ice and dust. >> a great chance to study the composition of our solar system like when first forming. >> reporter: for you as an astronomer? >> it's great. you see comets periodically, we've had a couple of opportunities to fly by them, but this is the first time we can land on it and do an in-depth analysis of what it's composed of and how it works. >> reporter: what's happening now on the comet, over 300 million miles away, out of the hands of us earthlings. it takes over 28 minutes to get a signal and to rosetta

philae was launched by rosetta which has been circling the comets for week. researchers believe the comet holds clues about the dawn of our solar system, maybe even life on earth. >> a time capsule telling us what were conditions like when the earth itself was just forming. that's huge. >> officials say the aircraft may have bounced once before coming to rest. scientists hope to learn more about the composition of comets and exactly how they interact with the solar wind. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield was on hand as people in the bay area were watching this historic landing at the space and science center in oakland. >> reporter: space enthusiasts cheered as space history was made this morning. this crowd started gathering at the space and science center at 6:00 a.m. to watch as the space craft landed on a comet for the first time. >> it's absolutely thrilling we just used robots to land on a comet. >> it was exciting. i'm a picture junkie. i love pictures of other planets and moons. this will be the first time we have ever actually seen a photograph from

the rosetta has been chasing it for 10 years. to catch up, it had to use the gravity of earth and mars as a slingshot, building up speed around both planet. when the philae landed today, history was made, but stephen ulemix said it looks like the philae may not have stucked to comet. >> maybe today we didn't just land once. we even landed twice. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> good job. it's not all so clear. it's not so easy to interpret. >> reporter: the philae's thruster system failed on the landing. this is an exact-sized replica of the landing craft itself, and when they learned that the thrust system had failed, they knew it would have to rely more on ice drills on the feet to hold it in place and harpoons fired spot surface to help anchor it. as it turned out, the harpoons failed to fire, too. the landing was always a big risk. >> the thrusts are not working. the surface, which was a total unknown, this was a big concern. we had no control of that. >> reporter: the philae's mission is to test the theor they comets brought org

an its tail, the rosetta probe belonging to the european space agency.been on a ten-year mission to make contact with a comet in just hours. >> i remember reading about it when it launched, and the aroofl date was so far in the future. now it's so exciting that we're actually getting there. >> reporter: if successful, this would be our first chance to really understand comets and learn what conditions were like when the earth first formed. the comet is 4.5 billion years old. >> nobody has ever tried to land on a body of this kind with material flowing away with gravity that changes all over the place. it's impossible to estimate the chances, but it's risky. it's certainly not guaranteed but everybody for years has planned extraordinarily well to get the technology right. >> reporter: this morning the rosetta probe will launch a mini lander towards the comet. the trick will be for the lander to find a smooth area without rocks or a slope. once contact is made, two harpoons will be fired into the comet, along with screws to secure the lander. even actor wi

because what's going on right now, the rosetta spacecraft is hovering about 27 kilometers off the coastat comet. it's dropped that landered size of a washing machine. it's going to take seven hours for that land tore fall off that comet. this like throwing a bomb off a world war i war jet. there's no gps, nothing steer this down there. they just hope the calculation, correct. because we're in space, it doesn't just fall down there. it goes very, very slow. it's going to take seven hours to know whether it's successfully landed on the comet. we already know it's successfully separated from the spacecraft. we already know. the confirmation came a couple minutes ago, and will it land on its feet? the surface here is very, very rough so it's going to be a very difficult landing, but if it does land, it should give us scientific data we've never had before. comets come from the earliest remnants of our solar system. they're essentially big blocks of ice with metal in them that could tell us what life on earth came from. many believe that water, for instance, which is, of course, the main com

data that will hopefully unlock the secrets, rosetta obliged a lander called philae. it is the size of a washing machine and landed on the comet, miles wide and speeding at 85,000 miles per hour. we have heard from the flight control team. >> picking up an unexplained noise from the comet. sending comet selfies. philae is transmitting information from the surface of the comet. calling the success a big step for human civilization. news.gonzalez, abc 7 >> we have an update on what happened. >> i follow the european space agency on twitter. gently, landed fairly the harpoons did not actually happen. the harpoons were supposed to stick into the comet. sure why that happened or what that means. the orientation of the spacecraft, it might be tilted. and what that means for its longevity. we will keep you up to date. around here, our story is a cold temperature pushing and across the region. 67 degrees, that feels fantastic. we have strong winds. winds northwest at 21 miles per hour. our dew point is at 44. you take a look at other temperatures, some weatherbug cameras. we

. >> reporter: if the name rosetta doesn't ring the bell that's understandable.to unravel a code or data that an ancient comet could contain. >> the piece that is came together to form the planet. how they came together. >> reporter: the space and science center ben burress says the rosetta has a comet between mars and jupiter. and just achieving gravity was a task because of where it's located. >> if you were to jump you would leave the comment. you would go flying into space. >> reporter: it will take seven hours for touchdown. >> with landing gear face down it will shoot its tarpoons and hopefully it will catch. >> reporter: we already know it's large. this is a 3d print out of the comet. to put that into perspective. here's a satellite map of oakland. there's downtown oakland and there's the comet. >> reporter: there is no risk of this comet coming close to earth. it will take about a half hour. >> the actual pictures to come back. the pictures of a surface of a comet. we have not seen that. >>> the lander on rosetta is expected to land on that comet. at 8:00

the unmanned rosetta spacecraft reached the comet in august after a ten-year chase.cientists finally gave the final go-ahead for rosetta to release its lander for the journey to the comet. cbs space consultant bill harwood will have a little more later on in the broadcast. >>> well, this morning that early mid-winter-like storm is blanketing much of the country in an unseasonable cold and sometimes and the misery is headed east. this is denver. the high temperature is expected to be in denver. just 10 degrees. the slick condition caused dozens of car accidents. in some parts of texas in oklahoma, lows are expected to fall in the teens today. folks in austin got a taste of cold yesterday. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz has more on the big freeze. >> well, the arctic express continues its march southward and eastward. we've got widespread freeze warnings this morning across much of texas and okc in southern oklahoma as temperatures dip back into the 20s. high temperatures today, they're getting colder and colder as things pass. big story in cheyenn

or a better way maybe is hollywood is good but rosetta is better. >> how audacious. how exciting!nbelievable to be able to dare to land on a comet. >> the rosetta spacecraft which carried the lander was built here but by airbus defense and space. their main business is making satellites and carefully avoiding mishaps. rosetta and its lander were almost unthinkably risky. >> when we look at this image we can see some areas that look kind of benign kind of smooth. but we can also see big boulders and cliffs. this is not going to be an easy area to land on. >> despite a successful touchdown, the lander team uncertain how securely philae is anchored to the comet's surface. in the last hour it sent these images of its final descent. the closest we have ever had of a comet but whether the probe is working as it should is as yet unclear. >> pbs will present a special documentary called to catch a comet that takes you behind the scenes of the rosetta mission it will air on many stations next wednesday. but you can watch it now online at pbs.org. >> ifill: congress re-opened for business t

these photos, rosetta's phalae lander, the first images from the images of the comment. >>> however,begin with some troubling new signs from the battlefield in syria. some u.s. officials believe that isis and the al qaeda front are cooperating at some level. but they see no immediate indications of some kind of formal partnership of what

the european space agency is going to try to land the rosetta spacecraft on a comet.t's nearly 500 million kilometers away, far beyond mars, for example. it's racing through space at more than 50,000 kilometers per hour. the spacecraft spent ten years looping around the sun just to build up enough speed to fly alongside the comet. but as our science editor explains, landing on the comet, that's another challenge altogether. >> reporter: it's one of the most ambitious ventures in space exploration. a tiny craft is soon to make a pioneering descent towards an alien world. pictures reveal an extremely hostile landscape. these images were gathered by the rosetta spacecraft, orbiting ten miles above the comet. now it's time to get down there. to get a sense of what the surface of the comet might be like, we've come to this old slate quarry. it's just as baron and just as treacherous. as on the comet, the cliffs are steep and the rocks are jagged. and scattered all over the place, are boulders of different shapes and sizes. some of them like these must be pretty sharp. whic

above, there is a spacecraft rosetta. comet,n orbit around the an extra ordinary achievement and what is about to follow is even more daring. it is almost free of obstacles. there is a risk they can bounce off. each of the three legs is fitted with a screw to drive into the ground. and it has two harpoons that will be fired down. no one really knows if any of this will help. there is another hazard as well. the comic gets closer to the sun and heats up. this image taken just a week ago . >> all the way down the surfaced. >> from the outer reaches of the solar system, it may bring us water and carbon. >> a tiny bit skeptical. let's bring that to a close. i'm katty kay. thanks for watching. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good. ler foundation and union bank. >> for 150 years, we believe commercial banks owes its clients strength, stability, security.

rosetta was launched in 2004. three months ago, it caught wup the comet, 679. it landed went. after the philae lander detached. rosetta commented its back feels chilly after philae left and philae replied it feels like it's floating. they replied that the harpoons are not working properly. they say the landing site the different from their original plan and they say their concerned that the solar batteries may not have received enough sun light. the comet is believed to contain substances dating back to the formation of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago. scientists hope that samples could provide clues to the orgin of comets, our solar system and life on earth. >>> nishikori has advanced to the semifinals of the atp world tour championship. nishikori is the first asian player to make it to the men's singles final four in this prestigious season ending tourn. . he faced terar of spain -- at the last minute. however, the unexpected opponent didn't rattle nishikori. he defeated him 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the best of three set match. nishikori is ranked fifth in the world. he ende

it's crunch time for rosetta.y have to deploy one of their main drills to get material from the comet, analyze it, because that's really what the whole mission was about. they want to get the material, essentially heat it up like a microwave oven, get the vapors and analyze the chemical c composition, and they have to do it now because time is running out. the bottomries will stop working if it doesn't get any more sunlight. >> and what can they do in terms of moving it, and what happens if it doesn't move? r >> that's the problem. they don't really know where it landed. they hope to deploy the drill, but the drill might move it. they need to wait for the signal to come back, tell us where it is. but if they don't drill, they won't get any crucial data that they want. they have deployed a tiny drill which drills one centimeter into the surface to analyze temperature data and the outside material of the comet. and that might have moved itself, and apparently the data is coming in as we speak. >> and we're also hear

. >> since blasting into space in 2004, the european space agency's rosetta spacecraft is racing around to catch up with comet 67 p, as old as the solar system and scientists believe it may hold answers to some of the big of the mysteries. >> if life emerged on earth or brought to earth by a comet many billion years in the past. >> to collect data, this morning rosetta launched a small lander called filla. it's the size of a small washing machine and landed on the comet that is 2.35 miles wide and speeding at 48,000 miles per hour. >> we have a go from the flight control team. already picking up this unexplained noise from the comet and sending back what is being described as comet selfies. >> that was real audio from space and filla is transmitting information from the comet. scientists call the success a big step for human civilization and that project cost almost $2 billion. >>> two american sailors were roughed up in turkey and the video went viral. >> go home! >> the sailors who were not in uniform, briefly had white sacks over their heads and they got away and ran to the uss ross,

since august, rosetta has been orbiting the commet. sicientists are working out whee they could land it. they chose a flat area with sun light for the solar panels. it has little gravity. special technology is required. >> there's a risk that it will bounce back. the point is to deploy, first, that landing with special landing gear, three legs which are shock absorbers, and deploy a harpoon, and making sure that the lander is attached to the surface. >> there's special scientific equipment. the rocks on the comment are believed to predate our solar system, something that scientists will be able to investigate. when comets come past the earth we are interested in the gases and the chemistry, primoshial chemistry. we'll get close and sample a comet for the first time and do the measurelets in situ. >> scientists suggested much of the water on earth comes from comets, they believe they may have brought complex molecules with them. what they find on 67 p could give us clues into the origin and evolution of not just of the solar system, but

people have difficulty to believe it happened. >> the rosetta face -- space probe took this photo on wednesday morning, just after it set off toward the comet. it took seven hours to travel the 20-kilometer journey. philae is so far into outer space that any news it sends back takes 28 minutes to arrive on earth. the computerized image shows what should have happened. >> not so good news is that the anchoring harpoons apparently did not fire. the lender is not anchored -- th e lander is not. to the surface -- is not a nchored to the surface. are we in the sandbox? is something else happening? >> the mission continues. engineers are trying to resolve the problem. >> for soccer or football world cup in 2018 and 2022, set to go ahead in russia and qatar as planned after fifa's ethics committee said he could find no grounds for reopening the controversial bidding process -- said it could find no grounds for reopening the controversial bidding process. the long-awaited report also criticized england's bid for the 2018 tournament for vowing to "inappropriate requests." let's take a look at

pictures from rosetta show it is dusty, porous and not nea nearls smooth as initially hoped. scientists also had to successfully detach the lander from the rosetta orbiter at exactlily right time and speed and it landed on that fast-moving cam met at just the right time. >> to get to a comet is really an mazing adventure once in one's life. >> the plan is for rosetta and filet to accompany the comet as it hurdles towards the sun becoming increasingly more active. >>> in miami, phil keating, fox news. >> it's just really cool. the latest tonight scientists were concerned about the harpoon system. we talked with the frank institute chief astronomer dr. derek pits who tells us the harpoon did deploy and three screw anchors holding filet study my brother who's airplays at a physicist this is his biggest day. >> it is a big day. >> it is. so a driver is in big trouble in south jersey tonight. not only do police say he hit a guy but he allegedly kept driving with the victim still on his windshield. how this dangerous ride to came to an andy. >> families in pain begging for justice.

mission rosetta's journey began a decade ago, from mission control in germany, to viewing party across america, scientists and space watchers were overswroi ove overjoyed. and in some cases overwhelmed. rosetta chased comet 67-p for 4 billion miles, just recently getting close enough to take a landing site and take a selfie. but touching down was anything but easy. the comet is relatively small, barely wider than the islands of manhattan. it has a rough surface covered in cliffs and craters, low gravity and it is constantly spinning. >> i think it was bold. it was -- it took a certain amount of ambition, shall we say, to even attempt to do this. >> reporter: key ddespite the il good news, confusion about whether it managed to stay put on the icy surface. scientists collected some data and that could help solve of one of life's biggest mysteries. how did we get here? >> the comet was formed before the earth was. and it brings an enormous amount of water with it. now, we are a water planet. where did our water come from? and one of the ideas is, indeed, a lot of the water came from outer

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the unmanned rosetta spacecraft reached the comet in august after a ten-year chase.cientists finally gave the go-ahead for tit to land. we'll have more a little later on in the broadcast. >>> this morning that early mid-winter-like storm is blanketing much of the country in an unseasonable cold and sometimes miand the misery is helded east. the temperature is expected to be in denver just 10 degrees. the slick condition caused dozens of car accidents. in some parts of texas in oklahoma, lows are expected to fall in the teens today. folks in austin got a taste of cold yesterday. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz has more on the big freeze. >> it continues to march south and east wad. we've got freeze warnings for much of texas and okc in southern oklahoma as temperatures dip back into the 20s. high temperatures today, they're getting cold aerchd coaler as things pass. big story in cheyenne, highs in the 30s as well as tulsa, st. louis, and chicago. cleveland maybe reaching that 40-degree mark. as we head through thursday morning, lots of single digit

rosetta released the lander on wednesday. about seven hours later it touched down on the comet. the lander will gather and analyze samples from the comet's surface. scientists believe 67-p contains substances from the time the solar system came into existence more than 4.5 billion years ago. samples taken from the comet's surface could provide clues to the origin of comets, as well as the solar system and water and life on earth. >>> managers at japanese companieses are reinvesting in businesseses. machinery orderses ru are up fo fourth straight month. we have more from the business desk. ai? they are buying new equipment, taking profits and putting them back into their companies. officials at the cabinet office say managers in september placed orders worth $7.2 billion. that's up 2.9% in yen terms from august. the numbers don't include orders for ships and from power utilities because they fluctuate too much. orders from manufacturers were up 12%, those from non-manufacturers rose 1.7%. those numbers came many much stronger than most analystses expected. they were forecasting a

the mission rosetta journey began a decade ago, today success. from mission control in germany to viewing parties across america scientists and space watchers were overjoyed. >> i feel being part of a history proud. >> reporter: and in some cases overwhelmed. rosetta chased comet 67p for 4 billion miles just recently getting close enough to take a landing site and even a selfie. but touching down was anything but easy. essentially it's like dropping a penny into the mouth of an open bottle from a really great height. except this was infinitely more complex. the comet is relatively small, wider than the island of manhattan, it has a rough surface covered in cliffs and craters, low gravity and is constantly spinning. >> and i think it was bold. it took a certain amount of ambition, shall we say, to even attempt to do this. >> reporter: despite the initial good news, tonight confusion about whether the washing machine size lander managed to stay put on the comet's icy surface. still, scientists did collect some data, and that could help solve one of