scientist have analyzed the final data sent by Rosetta when it crash on comet 67P / Churyumov – Gerasimenko and have reconstruct the last paradigm it require . The icon was taken as the craft was just about to meet its end of the world .
The squad has already collected a “ last image ” when the European Space Agency ’s probe was between 26 and 23 meters ( 85 - 75 feet ) high . The newfangled picture was part of the telemetric packets sent subsequently , but the squad did n’t recognise it was there . It was collected when the probe was 5 measure ( 16 feet ) closer to the comet ’s control surface .
" The last complete simulacrum transmitted from Rosetta was the last one that we saw come back on Earth in one objet d’art moments before the touchdown at Sais , " Holger Sierks , principal research worker for the Rosetta ’s OSIRIS tv camera at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research , say in astatement . " Later , we found a few telemetry packets on our server and thought , wow , that could be another icon . "
Images were sent by the investigation in six packets of data , which tot 23 kB . However , the squad received just above half that in the last transmission system , as the communication was interrupted . The automatic software did n’t recognize the data as an persona , but the technology team looked at what they had and worked to get something meaningful out of 53 percent of the usual data point .
The final persona has a condensation ratio of 1:38 rather than 1:20 , so it ’s a lot blurrier than you might gestate . The OSIRIS camera was n’t on the dot plan for such close-fitting - up views .
Rosetta spent two years orbit comet 67P , collecting an impressive amount of information on the construction and composition of the object . It wascrashed on the cometon September 30 , 2016 , as the comet was move away from the Sun and the solar - power investigation would not go the wintertime .
