Discover the cosmosEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Explanation:Put on your red/blue glassesand float next to the jagged and double-lobed nucleus of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known asComet 67P.
The stereo anaglyph was created by combining two images from the Rosetta spacecraft’snarrow angle OSIRIS camerataken on July 25, 2015from a distance of 184 kilometers.
Numerous jets are emanating from the small solar system world’s active surface near its closest approach to the Sun.
The larger lobe is around 4 kilometers in diameter, joined to a smaller, 2.5 kilometer diameter lobe by a narrow neck.
Rosetta’s mission to the comet ended in September 2016 when the spacecraft was commanded to a controlled impact with the comet’s surface .
Keep those 3D glasses on though.
You can check out acatalogof nearly 1400 stereo anaglyphs created from Rosetta image data on this website.
Tomorrow’s picture:open space