PIA18899: Rosetta Comet
 Target Name:  Comet
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Rosetta
 Spacecraft:  Rosetta
 Instrument:  Rosetta NAVCAM 
 Product Size:  1688 x 1999 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  European Space Agency (ESA)
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA18899.tif (3.379 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA18899.jpg (451.7 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This composite is a mosaic comprising four individual NAVCAM images taken from 19 miles (31 kilometers) from the center of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 20, 2014. The image resolution is 10 feet (3 meters) per pixel.

Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center, Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen; French National Space Agency, Paris; and the Italian Space Agency, Rome. JPL, a Division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the U.S. contribution of the Rosetta mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL also built the MIRO instrument and hosts its principal investigator, Samuel Gulkis. The Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio and Boulder), developed the Rosetta orbiter's IES and Alice instruments, and hosts their principal investigators, James Burch (IES) and Alan Stern (Alice).

For more information on the U.S. instruments aboard Rosetta, visit http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov.

More information about Rosetta is available at http://www.esa.int/rosetta.

Rosetta NAVCAM image use is available under a Creative Commons licence.

Image Credit:
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

Image Addition Date:
2014-12-10