This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.
Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.
This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.
Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.
The images in the animation come from the Rosetta-OSIRIS archive:
No, that was Jacint Perez (aka Landru79) who stitched the images together. He does wonderful work -- mostly shared over on the bird site, unfortunately.