You always have a pair of those cardboard red-blue 3-D glasses by your desk, right? Well, grab them and take a look at this view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, just out from the Rosetta mission team. It almost feels like you’re right there with the spacecraft.
Notice the cliffs (see the exposed layers there?), boulders and depressions. The 3-D image was created using two images (you can see the two images here at the ESA blog) They were both taken on 7 August 2014, from a distance of 104 kilometres through the orange filter of the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera. ESA says the two images are separated by 17 minutes and the exposure time is 138 milliseconds.
WOW! Yes.. there ARE impact compression faults(?) visible AND craters AND sublimation Pits! Nice! Looks great in 3D too! So cool…. thanks Nancy.. updates appreciated and expected (Of course!).
My o my…those are some steep cliff walls. Must be quite the sight on the surface of that depression looking up at the ridge line.