I captured this lunar image recently...It was actually video, where I processed 800 frames into the 40 best, and combined them all, or stacked them. Not quite Rosetta quality, but not too bad..[Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team; MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA]
Incredible image...
I captured this lunar image recently...It was actually video, where I processed 800 frames into the 40 best, and combined them all, or stacked them. Not quite Rosetta quality, but not too bad..was it two asteroids that got smushed together at some point?
“Smushed” being a very technical term
Very strange. Nowhere near enough gravity to keep all those rocks sticking to it, let alone to have what looks all the world like a dust or small debris slope at an angle of repose.
“relatively large swath of light-colored smooth terrain appears”
I will bet that’s where the tail comes from - the deposit of ices. This isn’t a “great comet” and there doesn’t seem to be much of those ices left. This should be interesting to watch as the comet comes closer to the sun and warms up.