#CometWatch 16 August
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/08/21/cometwatch-16-august-2
Today’s CometWatch entry was taken three days after the perihelion of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, on 16 August 2015. At the time, #Rosetta was 331 km from the #comet, which in turn was just over 186 million km from the Sun and almost 265 million km from Earth. This single frame #navcam image has a resolution of 28.2 m/pixel and it measures 28.9 km across. With the large comet lobe pointing to the top left of the image and the small lobe to the bottom right, this spectacular view shows the #activity of 67P/C-G just a few days after its closest approach to the Sun. The image has been processed in Lightroom to bring out the jets of dust streaming away from the nucleus. It is interesting to compare today’s image with previous CometWatch entries, in particular those from 24 June and 14 (...)