Rosetta’s Comet Scrambling Its Jets

By DC Agle|Jet Prpulsion Laboratory, Dwayne Brown|NASA, Markus Bauer|European Space Agency on Oct 29, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta’s Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distance of 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers), shows jets of dust and gas streaming into space from the neck of the comet’s nucleus. Images of the comet nucleus, taken by Rosetta earlier in the summer, […]