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Stunning [sic] Images from Rosetta Show Closeup Views of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
universetoday.com ^
| August 6, 2014
| Nancy Atkinson on
Posted on 08/06/2014 2:53:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Rosetta has arrived! After traveling more than ten years, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reached comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. These most recent images shared from the Rosetta team were obtained from a distance of 285 kilometers above 67P’s surface, and scientists say they surpass all pictures taken from earlier space missions of cometary surfaces. Visible are steep slopes and precipices, sharp-edged rock structure, prominent pits, and smooth, wide plains.
“It’s incredible how full of variation this surface is,” said Holger Sierks, the principal investigator of the OSIRIS imaging system on Rosetta. “We have never seen anything like this before in such great detail. “Today, we are opening a new chapter of the Rosetta mission.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: churyumovgerasimenko; comet; comet67p; cometprobe; comets; philae; rosetta
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The image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August 2014 from a distance of 285 km.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
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08/06/2014 2:53:27 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
Close-up detail of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
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08/06/2014 2:55:37 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
This one looks a lot rougher and irregular than others we’ve gotten a look at.
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08/06/2014 2:57:09 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: Flick Lives
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posted on
08/06/2014 2:57:19 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Hope we don't find something like this there!
To: SunkenCiv
You have to see this. Absolutely amazing.
To: BenLurkin
What resolution! These photos alone will keep folks busy for a while. Worthwhile mission all around.
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08/06/2014 3:05:03 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: cripplecreek
Looks like an albino Daffy Duck
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08/06/2014 3:08:48 PM PDT
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise
Looks like someone signed their name while it was still wet
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posted on
08/06/2014 3:20:22 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Cyman
Or a fossilized cartoon dog ....
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08/06/2014 3:24:06 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Ignore Bill Nye, the Pseudo-science Guy.)
To: JimSEA
What resolution! These photos alone will keep folks busy for a while. Worthwhile mission all around. Hasselblad?? Anybody know what cameras are being used?
To: BenLurkin
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08/06/2014 3:30:29 PM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: BenLurkin
Right edge above the center - we’re getting the evil eye from whatever that thing is - dog? dragon?
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08/06/2014 4:17:02 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(People were created to be Loved; Things were created to be Used.)
To: InterceptPoint
Re what camera was used. Definitely NOT a Hasselhoff.
To: BenLurkin
Wonder what smoothed out the area just left of center in that second image.
Thanks for posting.
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08/06/2014 5:30:35 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: BenLurkin
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08/06/2014 5:52:01 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: BenLurkin
In the second photo it looks like it is giving us the finger.
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08/06/2014 5:53:23 PM PDT
by
IAGeezer912
(One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
To: Heartlander2
IRS citizen service representative?
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08/06/2014 5:53:47 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(His Arrogance would love to replace John Kerry-Heinz but all the trained monkeys turned him down.)
To: HiJinx
To: BenLurkin
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08/06/2014 6:32:33 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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