Comets and Asteroids

Spacecraft’s Selfie is Photobombed by a Comet

Posted by Jason Major on
Part of ESA's Rosetta and comet 67P/C-G taken by the Philae lander on Sept. 7, 2014 (ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA)
Part of ESA’s Rosetta and comet 67P/C-G taken by the Philae lander on Sept. 7, 2014 (ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA)

In-situ spacecraft “selfies” are always a treat and this one is awesome times two: taken by the Philae lander piggybacked onto ESA’s Rosetta, it shows one of the spacecraft’s 14-meter-long (46-foot) solar arrays glinting with reflected sunlight while off in the distance is the “rubber duckie” Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko!

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One Comment

  1. Jeff Barani says:
    September 18, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    Waouwwww an awesome selfie !!
    Jeff Barani from Vence (French Riviera)

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