October 16 2014
Rosetta's Selfie
This picture appealed to me in that it seemed mysterious. It was different from all the picture in that it observed darker colors, but it was portrayed in a mysterious way, which appealed to me. This picture shows a selfie, or a picture of the Rosetta satellite taken by the Rosetta satellite. At the time this was taken, the satelite was over 450 million km from Earth, but only 16 km from a comet. Along the top the comet, with its double-lobed nucleus, can be seen emitting dust and other particles. Rosetta plan to land on the smaller nucleus of the comet. When the time comes in November, a small ship from Rosetta will be emitted and land on the comet. When it does this it will send pictures back of the comet, but for now this will most likely be the last picture before the ship lands on the comet.
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