Post by galacticantics on Oct 15, 2014 7:03:21 GMT -5
Published on 14 Oct 2014The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has sent home several spectacular images that show a large pyramid-shaped boulder studding the surface of its target comet.
Rosetta mission team members have named the 82-foot-tall (25 meters) boulder on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko "Cheops," after the largest pyramid in Egypt's famous Giza complex. The rock is much smaller than its namesake, however, which rises 456 feet (139 m) into the Egyptian sky.
news.discovery.com/space/rosetta-spies-rock-pyramid-on-comet-surface-141014.htm