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Rosetta Takes Stunning Self-Portrait 10 Miles From Comet's Surface

Posted by Soulskill on from the pretty-pictures dept.

astroengine writes: At a distance of only 10 miles from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surface, the European Rosetta mission has captured yet another dazzling self portrait with the dark comet lurking in the background. But the orbiter couldn't have snapped this picture without the help of a little friend — the attached Philae lander that is currently undergoing preparations for its historic comet surface landing in November.

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  1. Let's see if the EU predictions are correct. by trout007 · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://www.thunderbolts.info/...

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  2. Typical Rosetta by slazzy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Typical... yet more showing off from self-absorbed Rosetta and her selfies. I bet she posts them right to her Facebook account too.

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    1. Re:Typical Rosetta by Chocolate+Teapot · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least it didn't pull a duck face.

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  3. Re:That's called a Selfie by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer "Lawn Clearance Technician".

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  4. Miles? by Grizzley9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "At a distance of only 10 miles from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surface, the European Rosetta mission..."

    An EU mission using miles as a distance calculation...we've seen this movie before unfortunately.

    1. Re:Miles? by Punko · · Score: 5, Informative

      Its miles only in the summary; the article is in SI units. Apparently, someone believes that folks on Slashdot either don't know what a kilometer is or are incapable of converting them to another unit of measurement.

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    2. Re:Miles? by MildlyTangy · · Score: 2

      Personally, I would have gone with 176 football fields.

      Which sort of Football? Soccer? Rugby? American football? AFL?

    3. Re:Miles? by CODiNE · · Score: 2

      That's easy!

      A kilometer is 1000MB
      A kibimeter is 1024MB
      (Assuming a bitrate of 256mb/sec)

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  5. Re:What is this supposed to achieve? by mmell · · Score: 2

    Well, it costs a lot of time, effort and money to get anything to or from our moon, and even more to get anything to any of the planetary bodies in our solar system. If we want to exploit space, we might wan to consider exploiting those resources which are nearest to us. Comets and asteroids fill the bill there, so we might want to start by learning if there is anything worth exploiting there.

  6. Re:Historic? by exploder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree that the word "historic" is probably overapplied, but come on, it's going to land on a fucking comet for the first time in, uh, what's that word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, history.

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