The great pit of Deir el-Medina
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/09/the-great-pit-of-deir-el-medina
On 30 September, #Rosetta will descend towards a smooth region in Ma’at, on the smaller of the two lobes of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will target a region that is home to several active pits measuring over 100 m wide and over 50 m deep, with the hope to get some close-up glimpses of these fascinating features. The target site is seen in the image below of three pits in Ma’at (first presented in a paper published in July 2015); #rosetta will target the smooth region between the pits labelled Ma’at 02 and 03. The large, well-defined pit adjacent to the target site and identified in the image above as Ma’at 02 has now been named by the mission team as Deir el-Medina, after a pit in an ancient Egyptian town of the same name. The pit bears resemblance in appearance to the pit in the (...)
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