#CometWatch – early August round-up
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/08/12/cometwatch-early-august-round-up
Today’s CometWatch entry features a new image from #Rosetta’s #navcam (below) along with a round-up of #Images released from the OSIRIS narrow- and wide-angle cameras in the last week. The NAVCAM image, taken from a distance of about 10.6 km from #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 8 August, shows a spectacular close-up of details close to the boundary of Atum (foreground and left) and Anubis (the smoother region towards the top). To the left, the scene shows exposed layers with smoother material lying in between, which transitions into a heavily eroded zone before taking on a smoother appearance again in the centre, albeit scarred with fracture-like features cross-cutting at a range of scales. Layers can also be picked out towards the top right, some of which have the appearance of being (...)