Thursday, 13 August 2015

Rosetta’s big day in the Sun

ESA’s Rosetta today witnessed Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun. The exact moment of perihelion occurred at 02:03 GMT this morning when the comet came within 186 million km of the Sun. Read the full story and see the latest images on the ESA Web Portal. (coming soon on the blog too)

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