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Comet 67P/C-G on 14 February 2015 (19:42 - 20:00 UTC) - NavCam montage

Comet 67P/C-G on 14 February 2015 (19:42 - 20:00 UTC) - NavCam montage


Date: 15 February 2015
Satellite: Rosetta
Depicts: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

Four-image montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comprising images taken on 14 February 2015 during the first dedicated close flyby.

Starting at 19:42 UTC the four images were taken in sequence by Rosetta's navigation camera (NavCam) as a 2×2 raster over a period of about twenty minutes, meaning that there is some motion of the spacecraft and rotation of the comet between the images.

This image set was taken at an average distance of 31.6 km from the comet centre. The image scale is 2.7 m/pixel and the montage measures 5.5 km across.

Closest approach of about 6 km from the comet's surface took place at 12:41 UTC.

The images have been cleaned to remove the more obvious bad pixels and cosmic ray artefacts, and intensities have been scaled. Some contrast enhancement has been applied. The four individual images are also available as related images in the right-hand menu.

More images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko can be found in the '67P - by Rosetta' collection.

 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO License. Creative Commons License

Last Update: 1 September 2019
28-Mar-2024 12:14 UT

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