the people at the headquarters of the incredibly successful Rosetta mission are currently perplexed. one of the features of their Philae probe was a drill designed to take shallow samples of the comet surface. the probe didn't settle evenly on all 4 legs as hoped. the fear is if the drill is deployed the probe might start bouncing away and could be lost.
some say go for it with the small remaining charge in the battery. I'm in the camp that says wait and possibly get more data when the solar panels can collect more energy. what would you do?
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