OSIRIS images of Rosetta's comet show spectacular streams of dust emitted into space
Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
Rosetta's comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is beginning to show a clearly visible increase in activity. While in the past months most of the dust emitted from the body's surface seemed to originate from the neck region which connects the two lobes, images obtained by Rosetta's scientific imaging system OSIRIS now show jets of dust along almost the whole extent of the comet.