Rip Van Philae wakes up!
Holy flyin’ toasters, the European Space Agency’s Philae has awakened from its seven-month sleep on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Even better, it’s sending telemetry data back to Earth! When we last heard from Philae the lander’s batteries had given out and it was shutting down in November, 2014. Its landing was not in a nice smooth sunlit …