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tonyPick writes:

As the Rosetta lander approaches its target comet for a landing in November there are a series of pictures available, and these images have been postprocessed to highlight jets from the comet.

The Rosetta Space Probe is a European Space Agency mission to land a probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The pictures are taken from Rosetta's Navigation Camera (NAVCAM) at a distance of 28.6 kilometers as it closes in on the comet ahead of the scheduled descent of the Philae lander.

This particular image is an example of the ESA releasing detailed mosaic images for amateurs to process, which started a few weeks ago, and continues to provide some stunning NAVCAM images.

The raw images were released on the ESA blog and there's a summary of the mission objectives available.

Rosetta has been covered previously on Soylent at arrival and mapping of 67P.

1. "tonyPick" - https://soylentnews.org/~tonyPick/
2. "images have been postprocessed to highlight jets from the comet" - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0919-more-jets-from-rosettas-comet.html
3. "Rosetta Space Probe" - http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/
4. "releasing detailed mosaic images" - http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/09010937-esa-invites-amateurs.html
5. "stunning NAVCAM images" - http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/54523-cometwatch-navcam-images/
6. "The raw images were released on the ESA blog" - http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/09/19/cometwatch-19-september/
7. " summary of the mission objectives" - http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Europe_s_comet_chaser
8. "arrival" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/07/0049222&tid=14
9. "mapping" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/13/131224&tid=14

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