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Rosetta came back from its 1000 km tail excursion to distances below 100km last week. This stunning image of the Hatmehit region on the right and the Babi region on the left was taken by the OSIRIS narrow angle camera (NAC). | ||
ID | NAC_2016-04-13T15.17.54.813Z_ID10_1397549800_F22 | |
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Date taken | 2016-04-13T15:19:19.576 (UTC) | |
Camera | Narrow Angle Camera | |
Filter | FFocus_Vis (-) / Orange (649 nm) | |
Exposure time | 0.290 s | |
Pixel resolution | 1.98 m/px at 67P/CG | |
Processing level | Raw | |
Distance Rosetta ↔ 67P/CG | 109.214 km | |
Distance 67P/CG ↔ Sun | 417713888 km | 2.792245 AU |
Distance Rosetta ↔ Earth | 291178432 km | 1.946408 AU |
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA | ||
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OSIRIS was built by a consortium led by the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany, in collaboration with CISAS, University of Padova, Italy, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, CSIC, Granada, Spain, the Scientific Support Office of the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Institut für Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, Germany. |