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Title    Rosetta Spacecraft Sends its Final Images of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Date    Monday October 03 2016, @05:43PM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the fare-thee-well-great-traveler dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/03/0932216

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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  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "delivered its best" - https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/10/01/rosettas-last-photos-of-comet-67pchuryumov-gerasimenko/
  3. "67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=16183
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