Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The Towering Cliffs of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
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| Agilkia, the Philae landing site, looks pretty okay in this image (image credit ESA). Click to embiggen | But with a different lighting angle you can see it (indicated by box) is perched near a pretty worrying cliff. (image credit ESA). Click to embiggen |
Lighting angle can make a huge difference to how a place looks. With the lighting above, Philae's landing environs look relatively smooth, with some scalloping. With the light at a different angle, the "scalloping" is revealed as terrifying cliffs.
Labels: 67P, comet, spacecraft
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 11:32 pm 
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