It's really difficult to imagine what it would have been like to ride on Philae as it climbed and climbed on its high bounce above the surface, drifting eastward over time. We know that its second bounce happened about two hours after the first one, and it was a short bounce, and when it came to rest it was wedged up against a cliff. Where, exactly? Hopefully OSIRIS will figure that out soon -- but the fact that Philae's solar panels only saw light for 1.5 hours per day, the orbiter has to be in the right place in the right time to see the shiny spacecraft sunlit.

Another cool thing about the OSIRIS images is that we can look at changes to the surface of the comet that were caused by the landing. The community at unmannedspaceflight.com has been actively examining these images and trying to understand them. And I have to say that the post-landing changes are quite puzzling, at least to me. You see several circular spots that look like mini-craters, and want to interpret them as footpad locations. But there are too many of them, and at least one of them is too far away from the others for all of them to have been made at the same time. Are any of these footpad locations? Do these spots look circular by some trick of the light, but are actually deposits of darker material on the surface? It's hard to imagine how you darken a comet. It's all kind of confusing; I'll leave you with an animation that shows what I see, but I'll tell you I'm really looking forward to the ESA operations team's interpretation of these photos, because I don't think I'm quite getting it!