2026 October 24 - Rosetta's Selfie

Rosetta's selfie was taken by a camera on its still-attached Philae lander, with comet 67P beyond the spacecraft's solar array. Two exposures reveal the contrasting brightness of the scene and introduce the mission's complementary observations from nearby space and the comet's surface.

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