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The probe "Rosetta" photographed with close range 67P / Churyumov Gerasimenko. Scientists hope that this will help in choosing a site for planting the device.
A new series of pictures taken from a distance of 83-115 kilometers, was
published on
the official website of the European Space Agency.
6 August device "Rosetta" went into orbit comet 67P, the next week
he photographed its surface with a narrow-angle camera Osiris. Of
published pictures have a frame and in 3D-format - to see the comet
volume, it is necessary to look at him through the stereoscopic glasses with
red and green filters.
Pictures help to plan a place to anchor "Philae", part of the lowered
apparatus. By the end of August will be chosen five alleged landing sites, and to
mid-September, experts finally stop at one of them. If
everything goes according to plan, "Philae" will have to get down on the comet on November 11.
In addition, over the past few days, the probe "Rosetta" to estimate the temperature in the
different parts of the comet - it turned out that just below it on the isthmus connecting
its two halves. Rather, there comes close to the surface of ice from
which is a comet. In other regions of ice hidden under a thick layer of
Space
dust.
The width of the comet 67P is about 4 kilometers, it makes a complete revolution
around its axis for 12.4 hours. Now it is a celestial body is removed from the sun with
at 530 million kilometers per hour, but in August 2015 it
it will charge at the minimum distance. It is assumed that in this
time the comet begins to melt, so that the "Rosetta" will be easier to study it
inner layers.
According to the researchers, these "Rosetta" will help to deal with the early
stages in the evolution of the solar system as a comet is composed of substances
formed at that time.
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