Rosetta's view of Earth
Earth from Rosetta 13:08 UTC 5 March 2005
After skimming by the Earth at just 1954 km on 4 March 2005, Rosetta turned its Navigation Cameras back towards our home planet and recorded a series of black and white images.
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. The pictures show a field of view (FoV) of 4 degrees x 4 degrees.
At this time, Rosetta was flying away from the Earth having completed the closest-ever fly-by performed by an ESA mission the day before. On the bottom is Antarctica and above that South America can be seen. The coast lines are best visible in the first image.
Earth from Rosetta 12:47 UTC 5 March 2005 (2)
Earth from Rosetta 12:47 UTC 5 March 2005
Earth from Rosetta 12:45 UTC 5 March 2005
Related links
- ESA's comet chaser
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta - Rosetta operations
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Rosetta_operations - Rosetta factsheet
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta_factsheet - Fly-by trajectory details & finder charts
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=ROSETTA&page=Earth_Flyby - Rosetta performs ESA's closest-ever Earth fly-by
http://www.esa.int/ESA/Expanding_Frontiers/Rosetta_performs_ESA_s_closest-ever_Earth_fly-by - ESA's comet chaser to fly by Earth
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/ESA_s_comet_chaser_to_fly_by_Earth - Viewing Rosetta fly-by: audiocast with Detlef Koschny
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Viewing_Rosetta_fly-by_audiocast_with_Detlef_Koschny - New destination for Rosetta, Europe's comet chaser
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/New_destination_for_Rosetta_Europe_s_comet_chaser - Landing on a cosmic iceberg
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Exploring_space/Landing_on_a_cosmic_iceberg - Life of a comet
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Life_of_a_comet - Asteroids: The discovery of asteroids
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/Asteroids_The_discovery_of_asteroids - Arianespace
http://www.arianespace.com - Astrium
http://www.astrium.eads.net/ - DLR
http://www.dlr.de