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A thread for any cool, interesting pics or vids of space.
I'll start with this 1 second gif of the surface of comet 67PChuryumov-Gerasimenko:
And even though it's only 1 second, it actually spans 25 minutes. The images were taken by the European Space Agency's Philae lander during its Rosetta Mission. It was launched in 2004 but only landed on the comet 10 years later in 2014. It was the first time a spacecraft landed on a comet.
Here's another one to only show the comet's movement:
I'll start with this 1 second gif of the surface of comet 67PChuryumov-Gerasimenko:
And even though it's only 1 second, it actually spans 25 minutes. The images were taken by the European Space Agency's Philae lander during its Rosetta Mission. It was launched in 2004 but only landed on the comet 10 years later in 2014. It was the first time a spacecraft landed on a comet.
Here's another one to only show the comet's movement:
