Silver Rockets» rosetta http://silver-rockets.com Celebrating the dreams and realities of spaceflight and the great beyond Wed, 23 May 2012 01:07:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Illuminated Crescent http://silver-rockets.com/2009/11/illuminated-crescent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=illuminated-crescent http://silver-rockets.com/2009/11/illuminated-crescent/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:07:59 +0000 Danielle Signor http://silver-rockets.com/?p=1484 Illuminated crescent of Earth showing part of South America and Antarctica, image courtesy of ESA

Illuminated crescent of Earth showing part of South America and Antarctica, image courtesy of ESA

A beautiful image of home from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft:

The image above shows the illuminated crescent of Earth showing part of South America and Antarctica. This OSIRIS image was acquired with the the narrow-angle camera from a distance of 350 000 km at 22:28 UTC last night. The resolution is 6.5 km/pixel.

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