This Newly-Released Image Of A Comet's Landscape Is Eerily Cool
Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) taken from the Rosetta mission that concluded two years ago.
In 2014, Rosetta's Philae probe became the first probe to successfully touch down on a comet. The image shows a rarely-seen view of 67P/C-G, the iconic site of the first comet landing in human history:
This view, in particular, was made by combining three images taken in different wavelengths by a narrow-angle camera on Rosetta. There's a peacefulness to the image, although that calmness also has an eerie, otherworldly quality to it.
Here are also some other amazing images taken near the regions of 67P/C-G shown in the photo, like this one here:
And also this photos that shows a birds-eye-view of all the cliffs and fractured surfaces of the comet:
[ESA]
