#CometWatch 28 February
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/03/06/cometwatch-28-february
Today’s CometWatch entry is a single frame #navcam image obtained on 28 February from a distance of 102.6 km from the centre of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image has a resolution of 8.7 m/pixel and measures 9.0 km across. The view shows the large lobe of the comet to the upper right, with the small lobe to the lower left and the regions adjacent to the comet’s neck cast in shadow. This complements the #Images published earlier this week as CometWatch 26 February and 25-26-27 February, providing yet another perspective on the comet’s #activity. Like the four NAVCAM images posted last Wednesday, this image was also taken in support of the observations of the Alice spectrograph. For similar reasons, parts of the image depicting the nucleus are saturated, so we decided again to (...)