Cooking a comet images
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 1 Description: Photo of comet Hale-Bopp taken in Croatia. Credits: Philipp Salzgeber
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 2 Description: Comet orbits in the Solar System. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 3 Description: The anatomy of a comet. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 4 Description: Path of comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) through the Solar System. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 5 Description: This mosaic of images shows the evolution of the G impact site on Jupiter (highlighted by the blue ellipse). Credits: R. Evans, J. Trauger, H. Hammel and the HST Comet Science Team and NASA/ESA.
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 6 Description: A diagram of asteroid distribution in the Solar System. The majority of asteroids reside in the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Other large groups of asteroids are the Jupiter Trojans which occupy the stable Lagrangian points*, L4 and L5, on the orbit of Jupiter. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 7 Description: Size comparison of asteroids and comets. Credits: Montage by Emily Lakdawalla. Ida, Dactyl, Braille, Annefrank, Gaspra, Borrelly: NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk. Steins: ESA / OSIRIS team. Eros: NASA / JHUAPL. Itokawa: ISAS / JAXA / Emily Lakdawalla. Mathilde: NASA / JHUAPL / Ted Stryk. Lutetia: ESA / OSIRIS team / Emily Lakdawalla. Halley: Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk. Tempel 1: NASA / JPL / UMD. Wild 2: NASA / JPL.
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 8 Description: Left image: Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA. Right image: Meteor Crater photographed from the International Space Station. Credits: Left: Roddy, USGS; Right: ESA/NASA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 9 Description: Trees knocked over in the Tunguska blast. Credits: Public domain
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 10 Description: Comet 1P/Halley depicted on the Bayeux tapestry. Credits: Public domain
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 11 Description: Giotto ready for the solar simulation test. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 12 Description: The nucleus of comet 1P/Halley, as seen by Giotto during its closest approach. Credits: MPAE, courtesy of Dr. H.U. Keller
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 13 Description: Image of the nucleus of comet 1P/Halley as viewed by Giotto. Credits: ESA. Courtesy of MPAe, Lindau
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 14 Description: Principal features identified on the images of comet 1P/Halley returned by ESA's Giotto probe. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 15 Description: Artist's impression of SOHO. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 16 Description: Artist impression of the Herschel infrared space observatory. Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 17 Comet 103P/Hartley as seen by the PACS instrument on the Herschel infrared space observatory. Credits: ESA/PACS/HSSO
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 18 Description: With an extra neutron in one of the hydrogen components of the molecule, heavy water produces a smaller spectral peak. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 19 Description: ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft performed a series of planetary ‘slingshots’ in order to reach its destination. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 20 Description: Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko, using images taken on 19 September 2014 when Rosetta was 28.6 km from the comet. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure 21 Description: The Philae lander will deliver unprecedented information about the surface and internal structure of a comet. Credits: Spacecraft: ESA–J. Huart, 2014; Comet image: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure A1 Description: Experiment setup. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure A2 Description: Size comparison of the nuclei of comet 9P/Tempel and comet 103P/Hartley. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure A3 Description: A diagram showing the two tails of a comet and how they vary in a comet’s orbit around the Sun. Credits: ESA
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure A4 Description: Comet ISON's brush with the Sun as seen by the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite 28-30 November 2013. Credits: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
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P06 Cooking a comet Figure A5 Description: Left image: smoke billowing above Hiroshima from first atomic bomb. Right image: atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Credits: Public domain
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