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(Photo Credit: Rosetta/ESA/MPS for OSIRIS Team et al.)
In 30 days, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Just 28623km separates them and the craft’s on board narrow-angle camera is providing much clearer images than before.
The animation above was assembled from 36 images acquired last week as the craft was about 86000km from 67P, showing the comet distinctively rotating and tumbling over a period of 12.4 hours Continue reading