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Fig. 4

Altitude of Philae above the nucleus surface and distance from the comet’s barycenter, respectively, as a funtion of time during the descent to the nucleus of comet 67P. The time t = 0 refers to Philae’s separation from Rosetta on 12 November 2014; 08:35:00 UTC. Gray vertical bars indicate the operational periods of DIM.
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