Rosetta's amazing selflie with a comet: Here's why it was taken

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 22:10 in Astronomy & Space

A spacecraft, a selfie and a comet. What could be better? This week the European Space Agency released what it calls "selfie at comet" — a picture of one of the Rosetta spacecraft's 45-foot solar arrays with the rubber-duck shaped comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko illuminated in the...

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