The image is soft because Rosetta’s cameras weren’t designed to photograph the comet from this close. Side to side, the photo depicts an area only 7.8 feet (2.4 meters) across. The view is similar to looking down from atop a three-story building.
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This is Rosetta’s final image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken shortly before impact, an estimated 66 feet (~20 meters) above the surface. The scene measures just 108 feet (33 meters) wide. from 3/4 mile (1.2 km) high just a few minutes before impact. Headed for the abyss? This photo was made at 6:14 a.m. This photo showing dramatic shadows was taken from 3.5 miles (5.7 km) above the surface of the comet at 4:21 a.m. The image measures 738 feet (225 meters) across. We see dust-covered terrains, exposed walls and a few boulders on Ma’at, not far from the target impact region, which is located just below the lower edge. As Rosetta continued its descent onto the Ma’at region on the small lobe of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this photo from 3.6 miles (5.8 km) up. As in the photo above, much of the landscape is coated in a thick layer of dust that smoothes the comet’s contours. Let’s take the trip down, shall we? Rosetta’s last navigation camera image was taken just after the collision maneuver sequence Thursday evening (CDT) when the probe was 9.56 miles (15.4 km) above the comet’s surface.
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PHEW ISS WALLOPS SERIES
As the probe descended to the comet’s bouldery surface of the comet in free fall, it snapped a series of ever-more-detailed photographs while gathering the last bits data on the density and composition of cometary gases, surface temperature and gravity field before the final curtain was drawn.
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Eastern Time (12:19 UT) this morning, when it gently crashed into 67P/C-G 446 million miles (718 million km) from Earth. Rosetta fell silent moments after 6:19 a.m. At typical walking speed, you could walk from one side to the other in 10 minutes. This and all the photos below are copyright ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA The image measures 2,014 feet (614 meters) across or just under a half-mile. Craggy hills meet dust-covered plains in this landscape on Comet 67P taken from 10 miles (16 km) up late Thursday evening during Rosetta’s free fall.