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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko nucleus from Rosetta

author: ESA/ROSETTA/Novapix

reference: a-com10-00060

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 17 cm

Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 01:20 GMT from an altitude of about 16 km above the surface during the spacecraft’s final descent on 30 September. The image scale is about 30 cm/pixel and the image measures about 614 m across.

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2016 - 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO - ASTRONOMY - COMET - NUCLEUS - ROSETTA - SPACECRAFT -