Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
while the stuff in the foreground is dust/ice on the surface of the comet itself, the background is actually stars. i saw a stabilized video where you can really make it out, and it blew my mind.
here’s the stabilized clip, if anyone’s interested
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thuringwethil was a fruit bat and maia of lorien and was used to pollinate night flowers, i think ive said this before, and also spread around small dreams before she ended up leaving to go work for sauron :0 i like to imagine irmo is forgiving when she comes back after she “dies”
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