Friday 30 September 2016

Comet landing descent image – 1.2 km

Rosetta’s descent continues. Here's an OSIRIS narrow-angle camera Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko captured at 10:14 GMT from an altitude of about 1.2 km on 30 September.

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The image scale is about 2.3 cm/pixel and the image measures about 33 m across.



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