Posted on 09/14/2014 10:40:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Spacecraft Rosetta continues to approach, circle, and map Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet last month, the robotic spacecraft continues to image the unusual double-lobed comet nucleus. The reconstructed-color image featured, taken about 10 days ago, indicates how dark this comet nucleus is. On the average, the comet's surface reflects only about four percent of impinging visible light, making it as dark as coal. Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko spans about four kilometers in length and has a surface gravity so low that an astronaut could jump off of it. In about two months, Rosetta is scheduled to release the first probe ever to attempt a controlled landing on a comet's nucleus.
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[Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team; MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; Additional Processing & Copyright: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin (Alive Universe Images)]
Yeah, I sucked in some air when the page loaded. The big one shows a great level of detail.
A damp bottle rocket would probably be too much retro fire.
:’)
would a bottle rocket ignite or does it need oxygen?
weird that it looks just like some snow cinder that falls off your car underside.
Low gravity is the reason I have always been skeptical about plans to send astronauts to asteroids or plans to successfully mine an asteroid.
How do you anchor a shelter or an astronaut or a mining tool in place?
And, once you figure out how to dig, wouldn’t there be a perpetual fog of dirt and small rocks floating around?
Not to mention the face of the guy looming out of shadows in the bottom left corner of the Big Picture,...the one they cropped out in the broadcast photo,...looks like the same face on the Martian surface. /CT <;^0
How do you anchor a shelter or an astronaut or a mining tool in place?
Probably with an auger-type device of some sort. Look at any row of power poles in the US. A few of them will have guy wires. At the bottom end of each guy wire there is an earth anchor, which looks a lot like a short auger. Something like this is the anchor they will use.
And, once you figure out how to dig, wouldnt there be a perpetual fog of dirt and small rocks floating around?
Most of the dirt, dust and small rocks will have escape velocity and will just keep going into space...
It would fire.
Dark as coal. Not a dirty snowball. No ice.
Should be interesting watching that one as it becomes active.
Spectacular big picture!
The closeup looks as if the right lobe is studded with diamonds.
Thank you for the ping, Mr. Civilizations.
MD
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