Crescent Earth

By Miss Cellania in Pictures, Science & Tech on Nov 13, 2009 at 12:04 am

This beautiful picture of Earth was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta is on a mission to intercept the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which will happen in 2014. The brightest part of this picture is our South Pole. Link

(image credit: ESA)


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  1. pwscott
    Nov 13th, 2009 at 8:17 am

    Great picture. I’ll be more excited to see the comet though. :p

  2. heather
    Nov 13th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing this!

  3. Ali S.
    Nov 15th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Sweet…I just got my new desktop picture! :D


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