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

posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 03 2016, @05:43PM   
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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• There Is None There Is None (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:23PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:23PM (#409554)

  There is no "spacecraft Rosetta" that "sends data from space". This is a hoax, brought to you by the clowns of NASA et al, all designed to reinforce the idea that the Earth is a randomly generated spinning globe that rotates around a randomly generated enormous ball of fusing Hydrogen.

  "OSIRIS", huh?

  How is your sun worshiping working out for you so far?

  • Re:There Is None (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:40PM (#409565)

    Burp

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  • Re:There Is None (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:55PM (#409577)

    I'm sick of "experts" like you and NASA telling me what to think. I'm going to ask my grandma what to make of all this. Experts, pfft.

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  • Re:There Is None (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @09:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @09:27PM (#409669)

    This is a hoax, brought to you by the clowns of NASA et al

    You idiot! Blame the clowns of ESA for this hoax.

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  • Re:There Is None (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.

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  • Re:There Is None Re:There Is None (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:11AM (#409806)

    Osiris was not the god of the sun, but the god of the afterlife. Maybe they'll hope it will live again someday.

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    • Re:There Is None (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @12:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @12:38PM (#409957)

      Sure. By "sun worship" I meant the whole mumbo-jumbo those clowns are into (mostly sun worship, at least on its surface).

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• Images (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @07:44PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @07:44PM (#409601)

  On the stream of the landing, they showed a nice looking widescreen pic of gravel, but it never showed up on the releases, http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Missions/Rosetta/(class)/image [esa.int] .