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Rosetta pic of earth
« on: November 16, 2007, 10:49:22 AM »

Rosetta is briefly back, taking a gravitational boost be swinging around the earth. Someone pointed the camera in the right direction :)

The spacecraft was roughly 80,000km above the Indian Ocean, about two hours before its closest approach to Earth on the 13/11/07 :

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/rosetta/earth_flyby/EarthLimb_Nightside_composite.jpg

Isn't that just stunning?

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Re: Rosetta pic of earth
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2007, 11:11:51 AM »

Wonderful shot.  :)
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Re: Rosetta pic of earth
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2007, 01:44:15 PM »

fantastic.

Is it me or can you practically make out the shape of India and the arab states from the lights?
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Re: Rosetta pic of earth
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2007, 03:11:38 PM »

You can see most of Western Europe there if you zoom in. I can see Sicily/Italy, part of Spain, all of North Africa (the Nile Delta is lit up like nowhere else on the whole picture!), Corsica and as far north as Sweden.

I find some of the dark areas most startling - eg look at Italy and then look across to Croatia/Bosnia/Serbia and see the difference.

It's a money map really :)
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Re: Rosetta pic of earth
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2007, 08:24:50 PM »

>> if you zoom in.

So you can... incredible

Ive just got very distracted on the esa site as theres tons of pics taken from space.
Even one that shows Blackpool (well part of since its concentrated on Manchester)
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Re: Rosetta pic of earth
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2007, 01:58:03 PM »

pretty :)
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