#CometWatch 18 July
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/07/22/cometwatch-18-july
This week’s CometWatch entry is an image of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from #Rosetta's #navcam, taken on 16 July 2016 when the spacecraft was 9.5 km from the centre of the comet nucleus. The view shows a portion of Ash, on the large comet lobe, in extraordinary detail, displaying the smooth coating of dust that characterises this region. The upper left corner of the frame reveals a small part of the neighbouring Aten region, which, in contrast to Ash, is not covered in dust. Smooth material covering another region of the comet, #Imhotep, also on the large lobe, was featured in another image from #rosetta's #osiris narrow-angle camera, published yesterday on the OSIRIS Image of the Day. The image was taken on 16 July, and also reveals boulders of various sizes (top left), rocky (...)