HomeRosetta image chosen as NASA APOD
Today, NASA's popular "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website features a cool image acquired by none other than our favourite comet chaser, Rosetta!
Our NASA colleagues wrote:
"Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESA's interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. Pictured above, Earth showed a bright crescent phase featuring the South Pole to the passing rocket ship. Launched from Earth in 2004, Rosetta used the gravity of the Earth to help propel it out past Mars and toward a 2014 rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Last year, the robot spacecraft passed asteroid 2867 Steins, and next year it is scheduled to pass enigmatic asteroid 21 Lutetia. If all goes well, Rosetta will release a probe that will land on the 15-km diameter comet in 2014."
On behalf of the entire team working on Rosetta, 'Thanks guys!' -- Daniel
(Click on the image above to view the original version in ESA website.)
5 comments | "Rosetta image chosen as NASA APOD"
09-12-2009 • 16:44:34
He visto una puesta de sol desde la estación espacial, que impresiona por lo delgada que es la atmósfera del planeta; en la imágen que tomó Rosetta y que muestra una fase de media luna de la tierra correspondiente al polo sur, ¿la leve luminosidad del borde del planeta podría interpretarse como la atmósfera de la Tierra?
Gracias por sus fotos, gracias por su respuesta.
10-12-2009 • 10:11:46
Efectivamente, todas las fotografias que aparecen en la web de la ESA se pueden utilizar siguiendo la normativa de la Agencia y utilizando los créditos de la ESA. Pueden directamente dirigirse a nuestra web para bajarse todo tipo de imágenes, en el siguiente link:
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmghome.pl
24-11-2009 • 17:43:01
Congratulations! Thanks for the great picture, but what do all of those letters in the credits mean?
24-11-2009 • 17:38:05
Congratulations! Great picture, but what do all of those letters in the credits mean?
24-11-2009 • 18:14:38
The credit line refers to the scientific institutes who cooperate for processing the data returned by Osiris. See: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMYCF374OD_0.html The lead principle investigator (PI) is Dr Horst Uwe Keller,
Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany