Living with a comet: an #osiris team perspective
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/29/living-with-a-comet-an-osiris-team-perspective
OSIRIS, #Rosetta’s Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System, has been our all-seeing eye on #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, capturing nearly 68,000 high-resolution #Images of its nucleus and coma from all angles for 924 days. Here the OSIRIS team share some insights beyond the beauty of the images their camera returns. With inputs from Holger Sierks, OSIRIS principal investigator. OSIRIS has always had a big team: there are 97 team members today, and more than 300 people were involved – including industry partners – at the time the camera system was built. The instrument itself comprises two cameras – a wide- and narrow-angle camera, three electronics boxes, eight harnesses, and 22 subsystems, which were provided by nine European research institutes, plus industry, and (...)
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