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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ Rosetta

Posted by: OWW Mar 6 2005, 09:59 AM

Rosetta flew by the Earth last week and photographed the moon. Next stop is Mars in February 2007.

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMT9JD3M5E_index_0.html

Posted by: OWW Mar 8 2005, 04:18 PM

http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM62MD3M5E_0.html

"After skimming by the Earth at just 1954 km on 4 March 2005, Rosetta turned its Navigation Cameras back towards our home planet "

Posted by: djellison Mar 8 2005, 04:48 PM

Do those images look like they're thru different filters to you?

Posted by: OWW Mar 8 2005, 05:05 PM

QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 8 2005, 04:48 PM)

Do those images look like they're thru different filters to you?

I don't know if Rosetta's Navigation Camera is even capable of taking pictures with different filters.
The caption says "These images were recorded by Navigation Camera 1 between 12:47 and 13:08 UTC, 5 March, with an integration time of between 0.01 and 0.05 seconds.", so I imagine the dark image of Earth is the 0.01 seconds exposure and the brightest the 0.05 seconds.

Posted by: djellison Mar 8 2005, 05:08 PM

Yup - the different shades just reminded me of the NEAR earth flyby movie's R,G and B filters

Doug

Posted by: Sunspot Mar 8 2005, 05:48 PM

Where did you find the link to those images of the Earth from Rosetta? The ESA Rosetta homepage doenst have any.

Posted by: remcook Mar 8 2005, 06:44 PM

the link was provided

Posted by: Sunspot Mar 8 2005, 07:47 PM

QUOTE (remcook @ Mar 8 2005, 06:44 PM)

the link was provided

I know..... buy what I meant was where did you find the link to that page? The Rosetta homepage has nothing on this, niether does the ESA homepage.

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=13

http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/index.html

Posted by: OWW Mar 8 2005, 08:04 PM

Sunspot, on the ESA homepage, click on 'space science' and click on the Rosetta spacecraft. Voila!

Posted by: dilo Mar 9 2005, 09:05 PM

Great new images in
http://rosetta.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31063&farchive_objecttypeid=18,19,22&farchive_objectid=30912
best one was too bright, I elaborated it a little bit (in the inset another Moon image without bright spots (cosmic rays?))
http://www.imageshack.us