{"id":242664,"date":"2016-08-31T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=376c4cc27a8eecda0e9ff1e62f3ad940"},"modified":"2016-08-31T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:00:00","slug":"comet-dust-flyover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242664","title":{"rendered":"Comet dust flyover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/08\/comet_dust_flyover\/16103504-2-eng-GB\/Comet_dust_flyover_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta has imaged the smallest grains of Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko\u2019s dust yet, with its Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System, MIDAS. The three-dimensional nature of five representative dust particles is visualised in this animation. It shows the complexity of the shapes of the dust particles, which are in turn made up of smaller and smaller dust grains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn general, the particles are either classified as small, tightly packed \u2018compact\u2019 grains or larger more porous, loosely arranged \u2018fluffy\u2019 grains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut, even though it may appear like we are flying over of a mountain range in this animation, these particles are extremely small: they range from a few tens of micrometres down to just a few hundred nanometres.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFind out more: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2016\/08\/31\/imaging-tiny-comet-dust-in-3d\/%20\">Imaging tiny comet dust in 3D<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/08\/comet_dust_flyover\/16103504-2-eng-GB\/Comet_dust_flyover_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta has imaged the smallest grains of Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko&rsquo;s dust yet, with its Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System, MIDAS. The three-dimensional nature of five representative dust particles is visualised in this animation. It shows the complexity of the shapes of the dust particles, which are in turn made up of smaller and smaller dust grains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn general, the particles are either classified as small, tightly packed &lsquo;compact&rsquo; grains or larger more porous, loosely arranged &lsquo;fluffy&rsquo; grains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut, even though it may appear like we are flying over of a mountain range in this animation, these particles are extremely small: they range from a few tens of micrometres down to just a few hundred nanometres.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFind out more: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2016\/08\/31\/imaging-tiny-comet-dust-in-3d\/%20\">Imaging tiny comet dust in 3D<\/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-242664","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\/242664","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=242664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242665,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242664\/revisions\/242665"}],"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=242664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}