#CometWatch – the movie
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/12/19/cometwatch-the-movie
As the incredible year of 2014 draws to a close, we have prepared a small treat for all of the readers of this blog who have followed #Rosetta's progress over the months, in particular those who like to download #Images and play with them. We started our CometWatch in July, when #rosetta was still a few thousand kilometres away from #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. We saw this curiously-shaped comet grow larger and richer in details as the spacecraft got closer and closer until rendezvous at 100 km on 6 August. The #navcam images released over that period provided a good overview of our approach this amazing new world. In September, as we drew closer to the comet, we had to switch to taking four-image mosaics in order to ensure that we could cover enough of it for navigation purposes. (...)