Extraordinary Images from Rosetta – Cities at Night
Written by Marko on November 16, 2007
Rosetta has taken spectacular images of Earth. It was close to Earth in Tuesday while travelling towards comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta captured these beautiful images while passing the Earth. In those pictures you can see the tremendous amounts of light of big cities. See Hong Kong, for example. Compare it to Singapore and you see the difference in size.
Rosetta was very close to Earth, only 5301 kilometers away from our planet. It had velocity of 45 000 kilometers per hour. Rosetta will reach comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. This is a good example of the huge scale of the universe. The distance to the comet is not much compared to other distances in the universe, but it takes about seven years for Rosetta to travel to the comet, even though it has a very high velocity from human being point of view.
For more great images taken lately, see the Earth-Rise HDTV Image Taken by JAXA.
Read more about this news and see the rest of the images in ESA’s website.
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11-18-2007
9:53 pm
Arabic Celebrity
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11-19-2007
2:44 am
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11-20-2007
12:44 am
marko
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11-20-2007
12:45 am
marko
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