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Rosetta Spacecraft Sends its Final Images of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 03 2016, @05:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the fare-thee-well-great-traveler dept.

takyon writes:

The Rosetta spacecraft has delivered its best (and final) images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko:

Just before settling to a soft crash landing Friday, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft captured close-range images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, peering into a stadium-sized pit and recording a final dataset to keep scientists busy long after the mission's end.

The craft's OSIRIS science camera took images throughout Rosetta's descent and sent the data back to Earth in real-time. The final image came from an altitude of 65 feet (20 meters) above the comet, just before ground controllers received the last signal from Rosetta at 1119 GMT (7:19 a.m. EDT).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @11:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @11:38PM (#409732)

    Our solar system is not random; it's built by the Great Troll.