The European Space Agency terminated the Rosetta mission today, and did it in a spectacular way. It crash-landed the spacecraft, which weighed nearly 3,000 kg (3.3 tons) and had a wing span of 30 meters. All the while, as it descended to its doom, it took pictures. (Here’s what it might have thought about its own death.)
View from 15.5 km
ESA/Rosetta
View from 11.7 km
ESA/Rosetta
View from 8.9 km
ESA/Rosetta
View from 5.7 km
ESA/Rosetta
View from 1.2 km
ESA/Rosetta
View from 20 meters
ESA/Rosetta
We will update this post with any more images we get of the final moments of the Rosetta mission.
