#osiris data release – including “shadow” flyby
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/06/28/osiris-data-release-including-shadow-flyby
Remember the stunning image #Rosetta snapped of its own shadow last year? This was just one of twelve images taken by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera during the 6 km flyby of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 14 February 2015 that captured the shadow, and which have today been released into the Archive Image Browser and the Planetary #Science Archive. This latest OSIRIS data release comprises 1357 narrow-angle camera #Images and 2162 wide-angle camera images from the period 20 December 2014 – 10 March 2015. During this time #rosetta was initially in ~28 km orbits around the #comet. In early February the spacecraft moved out to 142 km before swooping past the comet at 6 km on 14 February and away again (this video visualizes Rosetta’s trajectory at that time). The 14 February flyby was not (...)