The Rosetta
spacecraft, on its way to chase down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, took this
image of the moon after swinging by the Earth.
The
spacefaring shutterbug used its OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera to take the picture
on November 13, 2007, about nine hours after Rosetta's closest approach to
Earth.
The OSIRIS
camera possesses such great optical sensitivity – in order to image faint,
distant objects – that it had to have its sensibility reduced in order to
take this image. A neutral density filter reduced the sensitivity of the camera
to one-fiftieth. This image employed the far-focus red filter of the camera
(750 nanometers).
--ESA and SPACE.com Staff
Credit: ESA ©2007 MPS for OSIRIS Team
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