Comet on 14 February 2015 from 8.7 km
Comet on 14 February 2015 from 8.7 km
On 14 February 2015, Rosetta swooped over the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at a distance of just 6 km. The closest approach took place at 12:41 GMT over a region known as Imhotep, which is on the larger of the comet’s two lobes. The image presented here was taken with the navigation camera shortly after closest approach, at 14:19 GMT, from a distance of 8.7 km. It has a scale of 0.74 m/pixel and measures 0.76 km across.
