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Views of the Rosetta landing site (high sun)

Views of the Rosetta landing site (high sun)
Views of the Rosetta landing site (high sun) Two views of the prospective Rosetta landing site in the Ma'at region of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken with the wide-angle (right) and narrow-angle (left) OSIRIS cameras taken on August 30, 2014. The relatively high angle of the Sun allows a view into the bottoms of two prominent pits, each about 100 meters across, one of them shallower than the other. The shallower one has debris on its floor; this is Deir el-Medina. The planned landing site is to the upper left of Deir el-Medina in this view. ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA / Emily Lakdawalla