Rosetta’s First Peek at the Comet’s Dark Side
![Image of the southern polar regions of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkotaken was taken by Rosetta Rosetta’s First Peek at the Comet’s Dark Side](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image05-10-2015-19.54.56.jpg)
Since its arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been surveying the surface and the environment of this curiously shaped body. But for a long time, a portion of the nucleus — the dark, cold regions around the comet’s south pole — remained inaccessible to almost all instruments on the spacecraft. […]