Fascinating images from a new world: Close-ups of the asteroid Lutetia
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 12:35
in Astronomy & Space
The ESA space probe Rosetta flew past the Lutetia planetoid on July 10, 2010. The OSIRIS camera system provided unique images of this rendezvous. They not only show a large number of craters on the surface of the celestial body, but also individual rocks and parallel grooves.