Posted on 11/29/2014 4:07:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to a comet! The Rosetta mission lander Philae's ROLIS camera snapped the two frames used to create this stereo anaglyph for 3D viewing during its November 12 descent to the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet's curious double lobed nucleus is seen nearly end on from a distance of about 3 kilometers, about 1 hour before Philae arrived at the surface. Philae's initial landing site is near the center of the front facing lobe. Part of a landing gear foot cuts across the upper right corner, in the close foreground of the 3D-view. Philae bounced twice in the comet's weak gravity after its first contact with the surface. Using high resolution camera images from the Rosetta orbiter along with data from the lander's instruments, controllers have followed Philae's impromptu journey over the comet's surface and have identified a likely area for its final resting place.
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[Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/ROLIS]
Very pretty.
How will a future President talk us back into space exploration after the destruction of eight years of Obama’ crushing the infrastructure and chasing the talent pool off?
Zero promised to send Mohammadans into space, when is that gonna happen ?
All of them?
You know that rocket has disturbed the comet’s orbit and now its going to hit the Earth. We’re all gonna die.
“We’re all gonna die.”
Yes, yes we are.
A promise is a promise.
Don’t worry, the alien spacecraft that is following the comet out of sight of the probe will rescue all of us in time.
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