Saturday, 17 May 2014

Rosetta's target comet is becoming active

IRON AND ICE
Rosetta's target comet is becoming active
Paris (ESA) May 16, 2014 - The target of ESA's Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six weeks. The sequence of images presented here of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken between 27 March and 4 May, as the gap between craft and comet closed from around 5 million km to 2 million km. By the end of the sequence, the comet's dusty ... more


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