INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION
COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
Date: 12 mar 2016
Distance to Target: 17.8 km
Camera: OSINAC 3x Near_Ir Orange Blue filters
This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.
Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.
in the #arxiv this morning: Splitting of Long-Period Comet C/2018 F4 (PANSTARRS), by Man-To Hui and co-authors. The comet has two components splitting at a relative speed of 3.00±0.18 m/s. Pre-split nucleus might have consisted of two lobes resembling the ones of 67P.