The Rosetta spacecraft continues to take amazing photos of comet  67P/C-G as it gets closer and closer to it. Check out these image galleries:

• Space in Images – Missions – Rosetta
• CometWatch – 26 October | Rosetta – ESA’s comet chaser
• A feast of comet features from Rosetta at Churyumov-Gerasimenko – The Planetary Society

Here are three recent images:

 

Four-image mosaic comprising images taken by Rosetta’s navigation camera from a distance of 9.8 km from the centre of comet 67P/C-G – about 7.8 km from the surface. The corresponding image scale is about 66 cm/pixel, and the mosaic covers roughly 1200 x 1350 metres.

The individual image frames and more information is available via the blog: CometWatch – 26 October

 

 

Four-image montage comprises images taken by Rosetta’s navigation camera from a distance of 9.8 km from the centre of comet 67P/C-G – about 7.8 km from the surface. The corresponding image scale is about 66 cm/pixel, so each 1024 x 1024 pixel frame is about 676 m across. In this orientation the larger lobe occupies the upper frames, with the neck filling the lower frames. The smaller lobe of the comet is out of view towards the right.

The individual image frames and more information is available via the blog: CometWatch – 24 October

 

Rosetta OSIRIS wide-angle camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 10 September 2014, showing jets of cometary activity along almost the entire body of the comet.