The European Space Agency announced on Thursday that its engineers say that its Philae lander undoubtedly landed on the comet, prior to becoming inactive because of lack of sufficient batteries.

According to information from the European Space Agency, Philae was seen in images taken by Rosetta. The robot had experienced a disastrous landing, when it reached the tchouri comet after it was released by Rosetta on November 12. The space agency lost connection with it as a result of the rocky surface of the comet. Robot was not receiving sufficient sunlight, therefore it was running out of batteries.

According to the European Space Agency, it saw a white dot on some images taken by Rosetta; it was not there prior to the landing of the robot. The scientists think that it could be the missing Philae.

Astrophysicist Philippe Lamy, CNRS researcher, said on the blog of the National Centre for Space Studies that is dedicated to the Rosetta mission, "The images taken before and after landing do not have the same resolution, but the topographic details correspond with the exception of a small bright spot that we see only in the images taken in December after the landing of the robot".

Scientists were expecting it to land on a safe area, however as a result of damage, the mechanisms that were thought to be used for anchoring it to the ground didn't work. Prior to landing on the comet in an undetermined area, it flew for two hours.