Compilation of the brightest outbursts seen from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta spacecraft between July and September 2015. The outbursts are streams of gas and dust. This comet is around 3.5 by 4 kilometres. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004 on a 10 year mission to reach this comet. It entered orbit on 6 August 2014 at a point in the comet's orbit beyond the orbit of Mars. The mission came to an end when the spacecraft made a controlled impact on the comet on 30 September 2016. The first mission designed to land on a comet, Rosetta carried instruments and a lander to map and study the comet's surface and core. Images obtained by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera (NAC) and its Navigation camera. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / NavCam / Rosetta / IDA; NavCam: ESA / DASP / UPM / INTA / SSO / IAA / LAM / UPD / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / Rosetta / ESA |
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