Posted on 10/19/2014 9:08:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
You'd never know from all the high-contrast photographs of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that the comet is actually quite dark. This recently released composite image reveals how little light there is emanating from 67P/C-G, relative to other objects in our solar system.
The composite image was included in a recent post about albedo (the term astronomers use to describe the reflectivity of an object) at ESA's Rosetta Blog.
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
racist comet post? /s
Not very reflective and further from the sun.
Ignoring albedo, the light from the sun fades pretty quickly the further away you get. High noon on Mars is about as bright as late afternoon on earth. By the time you get out to Pluto, high noon is like a very dim streetlight.
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