On Monday, December 8, 2014 10:10:58 AM UTC-5, Chris L Peterson wrote:
Because it was well engineered. Like the Mars rovers. Like Rosetta and
Philae. Like dozens of other research probes that are doing their job
as planned.

It must really pain somebody such as yourself, who has never produced
anything of value, to see the successes of others.

But as 0bama was rumored to have said "you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Of course, he said that of *businesses*, not govt-funded space probe engineering teams. A double standard might be in effect.

WRT the science of the mission from:

http://www.universetoday.com/116208/...comet-landing/

'The same press release also defended ESA's decision not to release information from the navigation cameras more freely - which they do have control over. Citing overlap, they indicated that they want to "avoid undermining the priority of the OSIRIS team."'