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This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

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Are the starfield-with-foreground-streaks from some real imagery? The credits to this piece mention www.esa.int/Science_Expl... , and there are quite a few animations there. I've skipped around in them but can't find one with anything like those starfields - can anyone else?

esa.intRosettaFollow Europe's comet chaser Rosetta on ESA's official website, where you can find the latest news, images and animations on the spacecraft and its lander Philae.Rosetta will rendezvous with comet 67P...

Just a part of the comet that's brighter relative to the rest of the scene (the flare drops off as that part of the illuminated comet surface moves away from the spacecraft/camera).

Pretty amazing. People have barely been able to fly and now we can land machines on moving objects in space. Makes you wonder what the future will be like for space exploration.

My grand father, born before the planes, and hadn’t electricity in his home. He survived 2 world wars and witnessed man walking on the moon. Not sure this gap will be exceeded. Even Musk dreams.

Heh. Perhaps we might faff around on some (relatively) nearby objects in the solar system in the next 100 years at the cost of untold trillions of dollars... so there’s something for future centenarians to look forward to! (There... trying to strike a more optimistic tone. 😉)

Just because there was exponential technological advancement in the past century or so, doesn’t mean that’s going to continue. Just look at physics - there was a golden era of scientific discovery until the 1970s, since then: zippo. Humans have limitations and we may already have reached some.

That depends whether logic reason humanism and science prevail in the next 4 years or we follow the historical cycle of reversing back to superstition and ignorance. The Earth is flat and 6,000 years old 🙄 #christiannationalism #flatearth

I love how old and degraded this footage is. You just know that 1000 years from now, itll be assumed this was taken around the same time as silent films.

Those few frames. The light, the craggy cliff side on the left, the "snow" and a lot of it is probably basically the same snow as we have on earth, (maybe methane or something instead of H2O). It's beautiful, in how far away it's is, but how much it's still the same. And also it's really pretty.

wow i didn't know comets were so...solid..i imagined them as a barely solid bunch of rocks that if you just looked at them with an angry glare would start vaporizing. this seems like a pretty solid looking landscape

That’s amazing. I was wondering maybe you know, are there rare “earth” materials or maybe precious metals? Also could we slow it down, add some boosters or something and land it? Maybe ride it to another galaxy? Or send people.

Reminds me of this "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Roy Batty- Bladerunner

I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing the surface of a comet. Something about knowing that in the vastness of space sits a little triumph of mankind, playing in the cosmic snow, fills my heart with pride and fear.

Before reading anything I thought it was going to be a promo for a HP Lovecraft movie like At The Mountains Of Madness or something. But this is cool too. 👍