Comet 67P/C-G on 14 February 2015 (04:32 - 04:51 UTC) - NavCam image A
Date: 15 February 2015
Satellite: Rosetta
Depicts: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Rosetta navigation camera (NavCam) image taken on 14 February 2015 during the first dedicated close flyby of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Starting at 04:32 UTC, over a period of about twenty minutes, four NavCam images were taken in sequence as a 2×2 raster – each image showing only part of the comet. This is the first image in the sequence, taken at 04:32 UTC from a distance of 35.6 km from the centre of the comet. The image scale is 3.0 m/pixel and the frame measures about 3.1 km across.
A montage of all four images from this sequence is available here.
Closest approach of about 6 km from the comet's surface took place at 12:41 UTC.
The image has been cleaned to remove the more obvious bad pixels and cosmic ray artefacts, and intensities have been scaled.
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. 
