Getting to know Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

This animation of NAVCAM images follows the spacecraft’s approach to the comet from a distance of about 800 km on 1 August to a distance of about 62 km on 22 August 2014. The movie is a showcase of over one thousand NAVCAM images released today in ESA’s Archive Image Browser [http://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/]

More info: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/04/29/major-release-of-navcam-images-800-to-30-km/

Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0