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ESA's Director General on Apollo 11 anniversary   Jean-Jacques Dordain has been ESA's Director General since 2003. Will mankind go back to the Moon? If so, when and how?  This image of the Moon was taken with by Rosetta's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) at 07:36 CET on 13 November 2007, about nine hours after Rosetta's closest approach to Earth during one of its gravity assist manoeuvres.
OSIRIS has been designed to image faint objects, so a neutral density filter was placed in the optical path to reduce the sensitivity of the camera to one fiftieth. The above image was acquired through the far-focus red filter of the camera (750 nanometres). Release date: 15 December 2009 |