{"id":221581,"date":"2014-10-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"49cc2f6d247ff032b7025910f6e587a3"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:00:00","slug":"rosetta-mission-selfie-at-16-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221581","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta mission selfie at 16 km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km\/14968937-1-eng-GB\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nUsing the CIVA camera on Rosetta\u2019s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a \u2018selfie\u2019 at comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from the surface of the comet. The image was taken on 7 October and captures the side of the Rosetta spacecraft and one of Rosetta\u2019s 14 m-long solar wings, with the comet in the background.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo images with different exposure times were combined to bring out the faint details in this very high contrast situation. The comet&#8217;s active \u2018neck\u2019 region is clearly visible, with streams of dust and gas extending away from the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information via the blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2014\/10\/14\/mission-selfie-from-16-km\/\"><i>Mission selfie from 16 km<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/10\/rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km\/14968937-1-eng-GB\/Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_16_km_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nUsing the CIVA camera on Rosetta\u2019s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a \u2018selfie\u2019 at comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from the surface of the comet. The image was taken on 7 October and captures the side of the Rosetta spacecraft and one of Rosetta\u2019s 14 m-long solar wings, with the comet in the background.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo images with different exposure times were combined to bring out the faint details in this very high contrast situation. The comet&#8217;s active \u2018neck\u2019 region is clearly visible, with streams of dust and gas extending away from the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information via the blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2014\/10\/14\/mission-selfie-from-16-km\/\"><i>Mission selfie from 16 km<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}