#CometWatch 19 April
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/04/22/cometwatch-19-april
This week’s CometWatch features an image obtained with #Rosetta's #navcam on 19 April 2016, 29.4 km from the nucleus of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. At these close distances, the #comet nucleus overfills the field of view of the camera. In this view, which is not centred on the comet, only a portion of the nucleus is in sight, with the small comet lobe up and the large lobe down. On the small lobe, which is casting shadows on the comet’s neck underneath, we can see the rugged terrains of the Bastet region. On the large lobe, the view is dominated by a smooth portion of Aker, just below the neck in this view, which gradually declines towards the rougher Khepry. In the lower right corner, a part of the Babi region is visible, with hints of the elongated Aten cast in shadow. A portion of (...)