#CometWatch 30 September – Far, far away
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/10/02/cometwatch-30-september-far-far-away
Today’s CometWatch entry is an image taken by #Rosetta’s #navcam on 30 September 2015, about 1488 km from the nucleus of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was taken a few hours after the spacecraft had reached the farthest point – 1500 km from the nucleus – on its #far_excursion to study the coma and plasma environment of 67P/C-G on a broader scale. The scale is 127 m/pixel and the image measures 130 km across. The contrast was increased to reveal the #comet's #activity. In this orientation, the small comet lobe is on the left and the large lobe on the right. The last time #rosetta was at similar distances from the comet nucleus was in late July 2014, during the last few days of the ’chasing’ phase, before the spacecraft arrived at 67P/C-G on 6 August 2014. For a qualitative (...)