#CometWatch 1 March
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/03/04/cometwatch-1-march
This week, CometWatch features an image of #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by #Rosetta's NAVCAM on 1 March 2016, when the spacecraft was 26.7 km from the #comet nucleus. With #rosetta back at close distances from the comet, NAVCAM #Images no longer cover the whole nucleus but only parts of it, displaying a variety of interesting details on the surface. This image shows a portion of the large comet lobe, where the Imhotep region slopes down towards Bes, on the southern hemisphere. A jet of #activity is clearly seen emanating from the lower left edge, even in the original image (at the end of the post), while portions of the Khonsu region are visible towards the right. Imhotep and Bes are also featured in a image taken with Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 10 February, and (...)