The Moon and Europe - Rosetta OSIRIS images   Rosetta image of the Moon   16 November 2007   As Rosetta closed in on Earth, swung by and then left on its course again, several instruments on the spacecraft were busy taking snaps. As it swung away, the OSIRIS camera also caught glimpses of the Moon.   The Moon was imaged with the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) at 07:36 CET, about nine hours after Rosetta's closest approach to Earth.         Rosetta’s second Earth swing-by   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).     The below image of Earth is targeted roughly at Greece. It was taken with the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera (WAC) during the swing-by.       Europe at night, seen with OSIRIS           Europe at night, seen with OSIRIS   Major urban areas of Europe can be seen illuminated at night.      •  Rosetta Blog (http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/5/)  •  ESA's comet chaser (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/index.html)  •  Space Operations & Situational Awareness (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/index.html) Related ESApod  •  Rosetta swing-by update (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMDJF53R8F_0.html)  •  Rosetta Earth swing-by (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESApod/SEM0F253R8F_0.html) For the media  •  Media Press Kit (http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMJ09374OD_1_spk.html)  •  Rosetta 2nd Earth swing-by Q & A (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMUZ053R8F_0.html) Related articles  •  The Moon and Europe - Rosetta OSIRIS images (http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMIO263R8F_index_0.html)  •  Rosetta: OSIRIS’ view of Earth by night (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM3HV53R8F_0.html)  •  Cities at night: Extraordinary Rosetta images (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM9MQ53R8F_0.html)  •  Images of Earth and Moon captured by Rosetta (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMXWN53R8F_0.html)  •  Rosetta swing-by a success (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMEFN53R8F_0.html)  •  Rosetta right on track for Earth swing-by (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMCQH53R8F_0.html)  •  Rosetta closes in on Earth – a second time (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMC20VOM8F_0.html)  •  Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta's Earth approach (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMKB9JJX7F_0.html)  •  Rosetta teams up with New Horizons (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMTUJN0LYE_0.html)  •  Rosetta delivers Phobos transit animation and 'sees' Mars in stereo (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM9R6N0LYE_0.html) Related links  •  New Norcia - DSA 1 (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEMGSDSMTWE_0.html)  •  OSIRIS (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMYCF374OD_0.html)