The Moon Seen After the Earth Swing-By (IMAGE)

European Space Agency

The Moon Seen After the Earth Swing-By

Caption

This picture of the Moon was taken with the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera at 07:36 CET on nov. 13. This was about nine hours after Rosetta's closest approach to Earth. OSIRIS has been designed to image faint objects, so a neutral density filter was placed in the optical path to reduce the sensitivity of the camera to one fiftieth. The above image was acquired through the far-focus red filter of the camera (750 nanometers).

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ESA ©2007 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

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