#CometWatch 17 June
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/06/24/cometwatch-17-june
This week’s CometWatch entry soaks up the sights of a number of regions on both the small (right) and large (left) lobes of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was taken by #Rosetta’s #navcam on 17 June from a distance of 30.8 km, and the image measures about 2.7 km across. It gives a birds-eye-view onto the layered terraces in Seth (bottom left) and Babi (top left), with hints of the smooth dust-covered Ash region towards the bottom left corner. The boulder-strewn neck region, Hapi, lies in the centre of the image. Following the course of the neck ‘up’ towards the top of the frame, the boundary between Hapi and Aker is encountered. The view of the small lobe, to the right of the scene, is dominated by the dusty surfaces of Ma’at, and casts an impressive shadow over the landscape (...)