{"id":15915,"date":"2018-04-26T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2018-04-26T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T05:12:11","slug":"new-animation-of-rosetta-images-shows-a-wild-time-on-comet-67p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15915","title":{"rendered":"New animation of Rosetta images shows a wild time on Comet 67P"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2014 the European Space Agency’s\u00a0Rosetta<\/a>\u00a0probe went into orbit around \u00a0Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko<\/a>\u00a0and spent a couple of years studying it.\u00a0 Jacint Roger Perez<\/a> combined a series of 33 images made during a 25 minute period as the probe flew about 13 kilometers from the comet and the resulting time lapse creates the dramatic scene below:<\/p>\n

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Gif animation created by Jacint Roger Perez from Rosetta images of Comet 67P.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although it looks like a blizzard, the white dots and streaks are a mix of stars in the dark background plus dust and ice particles,\u00a0 as well as radiation going through the imager. The comet’s surface at the time was stirred up from the heat of the sun.<\/p>\n

More about the animation and the Rossetta mission:<\/p>\n

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  • APOD: 2018 April 26 – The Snows of Churyumov Gerasimenko<\/a>v<\/li>\n
  • A short new movie of a comet\u2019s surface is pretty incredible | Ars Technica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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