Rosetta Gets An Asteroid And Saturn In Same Image
Credit: ESA
Saturn looms in the distance beyond the asteroid Lutetia in this image collected by Europe’s Rosetta comet probe as it hurtled past the 130-km.-long (81-mi.) space rock at 15 kps. on July 10. A distance of 7.3 AU (about 1,095 million km.) separated the asteroid from the ringed gas giant, according...
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