This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product Compilation of the brightest outbursts seen from comet 67P/Chur
This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product Compilation of the brightest outbursts seen from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta spacecraft between July and September 2015. The outbursts are streams of gas and dust. This comet is around by 4 kilometres. The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft was launched in March 2004 on a 10 year mission to reach this comet. It entered orbit on 6 August 2014 at a point in the comet's orbit beyond the orbit of Mars. On the 30th September 2016 the mission will come to an end when the spacecraft makes a controlled impact on the comet. The first mission designed to land on a comet, Rosetta is carrying instruments and a lander to map and study the comet's surface and core. Images obtained by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera (NAC) and its Navigation camera.
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