As Rosetta gets closer and closer to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this beautifully detailed image of the comet surface at 06:53 GMT from an altitude of about 8.9 km.
The image shows a portion of the small comet lobe, with portion of the rough Hathor region (top right) and smoother Ma’at (bottom left).
Comet 67P/C-G viewed with Rosetta’s OSIRIS NAC on 30 September 2016, 8.9 km from the surface. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
The image scale is about 17 cm/pixel and the image measures about 350 m across.
Discussion: 2 comments
Claudia: Glad to have you there, if possible please tell us which region the images are from.
Regards and thanks, Kamal
With this and the new 5.8 km image feels more and more like some one has been eating a piece of the chocolate.