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Even in Colour, Comet 67P is Grey

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"We like to refer to Osiris as the eyes of Rosetta," said the instrument's principal investigator Dr Holger Sierks. But the camera is unlike human eyes, and so the colour image had to be produced by combining three separate shots. This was no easy task. Rosetta is constantly moving and the comet beneath is spinning, so various changes in angle had to be accounted for.


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