{"id":505003,"date":"2018-08-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b9e75ede7a899aa5be91a3d2078b0c66"},"modified":"2018-08-06T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T06:00:00","slug":"comet-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=505003","title":{"rendered":"Comet horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn 6 August of 2014, after a decade of travelling through interplanetary space, ESA\u2019s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its final target: Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P\/C-G). The mission was the first to successfully land on a comet when it sent the lander Philae down to the surface a few months later, while the orbiter studied 67P\/C-G in detail before the mission\u2019s end on 30 September 2016.\n<\/p>\n

\nOver its lifetime Rosetta extensively mapped the comet\u2019s surface, which has since been divided into 26 geological regions<\/a> named after Ancient Egyptian deities. The entire comet has been likened to a duck in shape, with a small \u2018head\u2019 attached to a larger \u2018body\u2019.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image shows a section of 67P\/C-G as viewed by Rosetta\u2019s high-resolution camera OSIRIS on 10 February 2016. Amateur astronomer Stuart Atkinson, from the UK, selected and processed this view from the OSIRIS image archive. It is a crop of a larger image that shows a slightly wider view<\/a> of the comet\u2019s \u2018Bes\u2019 region on body of the comet, which takes its name from the protective deity of households, children and mothers.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt shows the uneven, shadowed surface of the comet in detail; particularly prominent just to the right of centre is an upright feature surrounded by scattered depressions, rocky outcrops and debris.\n<\/p>\n

\nExplore the full mission image archive yourself at https:\/\/imagearchives.esac.esa.int<\/a> and let us know what hidden treasures you find via @esascience<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nOn 6 August of 2014, after a decade of travelling through interplanetary space, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its final target: Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P\/C-G). The mission was the first to successfully land on a comet when it sent the lander Philae down to the surface a few months later, while the orbiter studied 67P\/C-G in detail before the mission’s end on 30 September 2016.\n<\/p>\n

\nOver its lifetime Rosetta extensively mapped the comet’s surface, which has since been divided into 26 geological regions<\/a> named after Ancient Egyptian deities. The entire comet has been likened to a duck in shape, with a small ‘head’ attached to a larger ‘body’.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image shows a section of 67P\/C-G as viewed by Rosetta’s high-resolution camera OSIRIS on 10 February 2016. Amateur astronomer Stuart Atkinson, from the UK, selected and processed this view from the OSIRIS image archive. It is a crop of a larger image that shows a slightly wider view<\/a> of the comet’s ‘Bes’ region on body of the comet, which takes its name from the protective deity of households, children and mothers.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt shows the uneven, shadowed surface of the comet in detail; particularly prominent just to the right of centre is an upright feature surrounded by scattered depressions, rocky outcrops and debris.\n<\/p>\n

\nExplore the full mission image archive yourself at https:\/\/imagearchives.esac.esa.int<\/a> and let us know what hidden treasures you find via @esascience<\/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-505003","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\/505003","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=505003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505004,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505003\/revisions\/505004"}],"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=505003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}