Year at a comet, November 2014 - NavCam, enhanced
Date: 06 August 2015
Satellite: Rosetta
Depicts: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
November 2014 will long be remembered for Philae's landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. At 08:35 GMT on 12 November, Rosetta deployed the lander, which touched down 7 hours later at Agilkia, before unexpectedly rebounding for a further two hours to land over 1 km away in an unknown location later named Abydos.
The image shown here was taken at 16:00 GMT from a distance of 17.4 km from the comet centre, about half an hour before Philae made its historic first touchdown. Agilkia is to the top right of the image. The image has a resolution of about 1.5 m/pixel and measures 1.5 km across.
The image has been cleaned to remove the more obvious bad pixels and cosmic ray artefacts, and intensities have been scaled. It has been enhanced to bring out details of the comet's surface. The original image is available here.
This image is one of 12 featured in our "Year at a comet" image collection and has not been previously published.
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. 
