Credit & Copyright: ESA (MPS for OSIRIS Team), MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Explanation: Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESA's interplanetary Rosetta spacecraftPictured above, zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. Earth showed a bright crescent phase featuring the South Pole to the passing rocket ship. Launched from Earth in 2004, Rosetta used the gravity of the Earth to help propel it out past Mars and toward a 2014 rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Last year, the robot spacecraft passed asteroid 2867 Steins, and next year it is scheduled to pass enigmatic asteroid 21 Lutetia. If all goes well, Rosetta will release a probe that will land on the 15-km diameter comet in 2014.
Beautiful. Stunning. Gorgeous. Absolutely Awe-inspiring.
ReplyDeleteMan cannot come close to what Mother Nature has created.
That's what I thought, and the whole reason I posted it, this pic is amazing.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough I was having a talk just this morning on the drive to school about how nature makes art more beautiful than man all the time...