{"id":18552,"date":"2018-04-26T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/animated-gif-shows-snow-on-rosettas-comet-and-sends-chills-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T21:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:27:24","slug":"animated-gif-shows-snow-on-rosettas-comet-and-sends-chills-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/animated-gif-shows-snow-on-rosettas-comet-and-sends-chills-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated GIF shows \u2018snow\u2019 on Rosetta\u2019s comet \u2013 and sends chills around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An image from the Rosetta probe shows the Cliffs of Hathor on Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Specks and streaks cover the frame. Some of them are dust particles, others are background stars. The star cluster NGC 2362 is prominent near the upper left edge of the picture. (ESA \/ Rosetta \/ MPS \/ OSIRIS \/ UPD \/ LAM \/ IAA \/ SSO \/ INTA \/ UPM \/ DASP \/ IDA Image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been 19 months since the European Space Agency\u2019s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended, but the probe\u2019s pictures stirred up a fresh flurry of excitement this week.<\/p>\n

Or are those snow flurries?<\/p>\n

The excitement is over 33 pictures that were snapped back on June 1, 2016, and posted to Rosetta\u2019s online archive last month. The sequence, captured from a distance of several miles over the course of about 25 minutes, shows the comet\u2019s Cliffs of Hathor with boulders strewn about.<\/p>\n

One by one, the pictures are interesting enough. But when a Twitter user with the handle Landru79 (a.k.a. Jacint Roger Perez) put them together in a one-second animated GIF, the scene really came to life:<\/p>\n