Rosetta: 1000 km and Closing

Getting closer... This shot was taken by the Rosetta spacecraft on Aug. 1, 2014 when it was just over 1000 km (630 miles) from the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It has twice the resolution as the picture I posted a few days ago (I enlarged the image a bit), and we're about a week away from Rosetta entering orbit, 100 km from the dirty iceball -- photos taken at that point will have ten times the resolution of this one. It looks very much like we're starting to see rubble on the surface -- the...