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Dec 23 2014 02:25am
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The world is an amazing place and we've only just begun

+1 for humanity
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Dec 23 2014 04:02pm
seems there will be no further information releases this year, everyone takes a break over the holidays
here a link to the latest blog entry from the rosetta team http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/12/19/cometwatch-the-movie/
it contains an animation based on images taken between 9 november and 3 december 2014.
enjoy this and the holiday period as well
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Jan 6 2015 05:36pm
finally some news, but unfortunately no good ones: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30683860

Philae comet lander eludes discovery
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Jan 7 2015 11:45pm
some news from about the mission from "the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society yesterday (Jan. 5)" in http://www.space.com/28183-philae-comet-lander-drill-sample-fails.html
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Jan 12 2015 04:55am
Rosetta is now orbiting comet 67P/C-G at a distance of about 30 km. The images... were the first to be taken in 2015, acquired shortly after midnight UTC spacecraft time on 1 January from a distance of 28.4 km from the comet centre. The mosaic, oriented with the smaller lobe on the right and the larger lobe on the left, has a resolution of 2.4 metres/pixel and measures 4.1 x 4.0 km.

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Jan 13 2015 09:47pm
finally more picture are getting released:

Comet on 3 January 2015 – NavCam
... taken from a distance of 28.4 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 3 January. The image resolution is 2.4 m/pixel and the mosaic measures 4.4 x 4.2 km.
... a great view across the Imhotep region, which includes the Cheops boulder on the larger of the two comet lobes. ... The smaller of the comet’s lobes is situated to the far left of the mosaic.




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Jan 15 2015 12:02am
Comet on 6 January 2015 – NavCam
This four-image montage comprises Rosetta navigation camera images taken from a distance of 27.9 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 January. The image resolution is 2.3 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure about 2.4 km across.


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Jan 17 2015 07:55am
an older picture just released:

Comet activity – 22 November 2014
OSIRIS wide-angle camera image acquired on 22 November 2014 from a distance of 30 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image resolution is 2.8 m/pixel. The nucleus is deliberately overexposed in order to reveal the faint jets of activity.


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Jan 18 2015 12:29pm
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