Rosetta Space Probe Images

All high resolution images and the underpinning data from rosetta s pioneering mission at comet 67p churyumov gerasimenko are now available in esa s archives with the last release including the iconic images of finding lander philae and rosetta s final descent to the comet s surface.
Rosetta space probe images. 12 2014 with its philae comet probe. The european space agency s rosetta probe was scheduled to emerge from a 2 5 year long hibernation at 5 00 a m. The image set covers the period 2 30 september when the spacecraft was on elliptical orbits that sometimes brought it to within 2 km of the comet s. 30 2016 the rosetta spacecraft successfully crash landed on.
New high resolution pictures released as part of a huge archive of 70 000. On 28 september 2017 a previously unrecovered image taken by the spacecraft was reported. Incredible images captured by the rosetta space probe show in fascinating detail the comet 67p churyumov gerasimenko. The european space agency uploaded the final images from the rosetta mission to comet 67p earlier this week and the results are quite dazzling.
Rosetta was the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and over the course of its 12 year mission the craft captured nearly 100 000 images from space using both a narrow and wide angle camera. While blurry due to data loss it shows an area of the comet s surface approximately one square meter in size taken from an altitude of 17 9 21 0 m 58 7 68 9 ft and represents rosetta s closest image of the surface. This image was recovered from three data packets discovered on a server after completion of the mission. See how the spacecraft awoke from its deep sleep in deep space.
The rosetta spacecraft s last photos of comet 67p by megan gannon rosetta captured its last view of comet 67p from an altitude of about 65 feet 20 meters.