#CometWatch: Focus on #Hapi’s boulders
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/03/16/cometwatch-focus-on-hapis-boulders
With today’s CometWatch entry, we take a dip into the past, presenting a single frame #navcam image obtained on 17 October 2014, when #Rosetta was in a bound orbit around #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was taken from a distance of 10.0 km from the centre of the comet, and at that distance, the resolution of NAVCAM is 85 cm/pixel and the full field of view spans 870 metres. The image offers a stunning view on the row of ‘boulders’ lying in the Hapi region on the comet’s neck. A small portion of the Ma’at region on the smaller ‘head’ lobe of the comet is visible in the top-right corner, casting a shadow down the lower right side. As shown in this graphic featuring a full comet view taken by NAVCAM on 19 August 2014 from a distance of about 79 km from the centre, Hapi is a narrow (...)