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    • Title Comet on 6 February 2015 – NavCam
    • Released 11/02/2015 3:00 pm
    • Copyright ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
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      This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image was taken from a distance of 124 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 February 2015. The 1024 x 1024 pixel image frame has a resolution of 10.6 m/pixel and measures 10.8 km across. The image is processed to bring out the details of the comet's activity.

      The image is the first single frame image capturing the entire comet nucleus since leaving bound orbits last week.

      More information and the original image is available via the blog: New perspectives – CometWatch 6 February

      This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'European Space Agency – ESA', a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. To view a copy of this license, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

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