There was a combination photograph of two images released on Sunday, November 16th, by the European Space Agency, of the Philae comment lander depicting the lander loosing battery life. The European Space Agency has provided strong indications the Philae craft landed almost identically to its precise intended location. The first photograph was taken roughly 3 minutes and 34 seconds before the craft touchdown, with a second photo of the craft 1 unites and 26 seconds after touchdown.

The photographs were taken by the navigation camera (NAVCAM) onboard the Rosetta, an orbiter designed to fly over the intended comet lander site since November 12th. When examining the images you can see the touchdown area as the darker area in the lower center of the image taken only one and a half seconds after landing. The photographs were captures from a distance roughly 15km from the comet’s surface, revealing the Philae lander may have kicked up quite a bit of dust upon landing.

Scientist are extremely excited after landing a successful craft on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ranging an impressive 311 million miles away from Earth, that has already began to preform a series of scientific tests for researchers to begin studying.

It has been reported out of the SFGATE, the European Space Agency in Berlin has admitted the team will be participating in a brief recess after working several days non-stop around the clock pioneering the landing of the Philae comet lander.

European Space Agency spokeswoman Jocelyn Landeau-Constantin admitted to sources that most of the space agency’s team had begun to rest Sunday after spending several nights sleepless monitoring the Philae craft. That is not to say the lander is unmonitored, several teams are assigned and still working tirelessly on the European Space Agency lander before its depleted batteries give way to silence. This is largely due to the fact after the comet lander touchdown on Wednesday on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, it had settled under a cliff largely blocking the sunlight from reaching its solar panels.