New Navcam mosaic from Rosetta of the Imhotep region of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen from a distance of 19.9 km from the comet centre on 28 March 2015. The image has a resolution of 1.7 m/pixel and measures 3.1 × 1.7 km.
More recent images here:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Missions/Rosetta/(class)/image
Bubblecar said:
More recent images here:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Missions/Rosetta/(class)/image
That’s on the comet, right?
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:More recent images here:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Missions/Rosetta/(class)/image
That’s on the comet, right?
In orbit around it.
Bubblecar said:
captain_spalding said:
Bubblecar said:More recent images here:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Missions/Rosetta/(class)/image
That’s on the comet, right?
In orbit around it.
Even more wow.
c_s: the lander (Philae) has gone nighnighs for now. The mission ops are hopeful that in about four months’ time it will be in a better position to catch solar power and hence be able to provide more data.
dv said:
c_s: the lander (Philae) has gone nighnighs for now. The mission ops are hopeful that in about four months’ time it will be in a better position to catch solar power and hence be able to provide more data.
>>c_s: the lander (Philae) has gone nighnighs for now.
I don’t think there’s any point fooling ourselves, it’d dead Jim, deader than a Norwegian Blue.
Peak Warming Man said:
>>c_s: the lander (Philae) has gone nighnighs for now.I don’t think there’s any point fooling ourselves, it’d dead Jim, deader than a Norwegian Blue.
Well we wouldn’t have won at Romani with THAT attitude.
Peak Warming Man said:
>>c_s: the lander (Philae) has gone nighnighs for now.I don’t think there’s any point fooling ourselves, it’d dead Jim, deader than a Norwegian Blue.
Probably pining for the fjords.
The banding on those “cliff faces” at the top of the image look interesting.
Carmen_Sandiego said:
The banding on those “cliff faces” at the top of the image look interesting.
Indeed.
> New Navcam mosaic from Rosetta of the Imhotep region of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen from a distance of 19.9 km from the comet centre on 28 March 2015.
(or taken a week before an released on 28 Mar, I’m not sure). They had a lot of troubles during the close flyby. The star-tracker camera kept mistaking flecks of dust coming off the comet for stars. Couple that with non-functioning gyroscopes and Rosetta swerved so far off target that it’s high beam antenna no longer pointed at Earth. It took a lot of effort to bring Rosetta back to correct orientation, but nothing was lost.
No doubt some of the Rosetta crew are kicking themselves for not foreseeing this and figuring out how to automatically avoid the problem of comet dust interfering with the star tracker. Too late now, though I think. And that means that, because the comet will be generating more dust as it approaches the Sun, this could easily be the closest image of it that we ever get. Let’s hope not.
>(or taken a week before an released on 28 Mar, I’m not sure).
As the website clearly states, the image was taken on 28/3/15 and released on 1/4/15.
It’s mindblowing photography … Such an achievement