"Travel" photos of the Rosetta interplanetary station: from 2005 to the present

This is not a photograph, but a drawing, an artist’s fantasy. Photos - under habrakat.

The interplanetary station Rosetta with the Philae probe on board is already about 3 thousand kilometers from its target, comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Let me remind you that it is on this comet that a probe is scheduled to land in early August. As previously written on Habré , Rosetta took the most detailed images of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and after analyzing the photos, it turned out that the comet’s core is double.

It is also interesting that in addition to its immediate tasks - the study of the comet's core, the detailed photography of the comet, and everything else, the Rosetta station performed side tasks. For example, I photographed many interesting objects, starting from 2005 (the moment of launch of the station), and ending this month. In the continuation - a gallery of these photos with a description of each.
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Moonrise over the Pacific Ocean (22:06 UTC), March 4, 2005. One of the first photos taken by the camera station.


Another shot of the Earth (12:47 UTC), March 5, 2005.


Rapprochement with Mars for 1000 km. The photo was taken with a Philae camera probe from the station. You can see a plot of Rosetta, including solar panels. By the way, in the photo Mawrth Vallis . Here, the Mars Express OMEGA tool was able to detect the presence of hydrated clay minerals - a direct indication that water could flow across the surface of the planet in Mars’s early history.


The first true-color image of Mars (obtained using red, green and blue light filters). Photo taken February 24, 2007 (19:28 UTC) from a distance of approximately 240 thousand kilometers. Image resolution: 5 km per pixel.


Pictures of the asteroid Steins (2008), taken from a distance of 800 km. The diameter of the asteroid is about 5 km. At the top of the asteroid is a large crater, with a diameter of 1.5 km. Scientists were surprised that the asteroid was able to maintain integrity after the collision of such a force with some celestial body.


Stereoscopic (3D, aha) image of the same asteroid. Received on September 5, 2008.


A picture of the Earth taken by Rosetta on November 12, 2009 at the time of approaching the planet at 633 thousand kilometers. Here, as in the case of Mars, the generation of true-color images using red, green and blue light filters is used.


Anticyclone over the South Pacific. Picture taken November 13, 2009.


Asteroid Lutetia, 2010.


Lutetia and Saturn. The distance to Lutetia is 36 thousand kilometers. The photo was taken in the same 2010.


Lutetia. The photo was taken with the maximum magnification. Even separate boulders are visible.


Bye, Lutetia.


The first photos of the comet from a distance of 430 thousand kilometers.


This is not a rubber duck, but the nucleus of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Most likely, this nucleus was formed as a result of the fusion of two cometary nuclei.

But the video with the trajectory of the station:



Via esa