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Rosetta arrives at comet

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Artist impression of ESA's Rosetta approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The comet image was taken on 2 August 2014 by the spacecraft's navigation camera at a distance of about 500 km.

The spacecraft and comet are not to scale.

  • Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Comet image: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
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