Not yet ... the red box is the "next event" ... start of the flip maneuver is still some 4 hours away.
EDIT: Will try to make it clearer in version 3 of the sim

Ahh okay. My mistake.

From the Rosetta Blog.

Less than 330,000 km!
http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1238

160.000 km and counting!
http://www.dmuller.net/ is a REALLY cool site!

Will flyby image be live, or will they be released only after "18:19:53 Resume radio communications via high-gain antenna - Acquisition of TM signal (latest)" ?

I'm guessing after they re-establish contact with Rosetta.

Maybe at
"16:00:00 Resume Webcast - Media Event Life from ESA/ESOC - Science Team Present Images"

The first images will not be released until just after the World Cup Match is over; the schedule says 23:05 CEST but it could be later if the match runs into overtime.

Daniel: Your simulation is, as usual, terrific, but there's one thing about it that's a bit confusing -- all spacecraft events are reported as SCET but the Earth events are reported in Earth time. Since one way light time is 25 minutes there's a significant difference. So your countdown has the webcast starting after closest approach, when in fact it starts before closest approach ERT....not sure what to recommend as a fix though, because I like events being reported as SCET but it wouldn't make sense to convert Earth events to SCET.

Emily: You've described my problem quite well! The ultimate solution will be to offer two realtime simulations, one in SCET, the other in ERT. The problem is the data processing, in particular converting events from SCET into ERT without blowing up the database (or doing everything manually!) My target to have that sorted out is the MESSENGER Mercury Orbit Insertion. Unfortunately there is no quick fix, other than leaving out Earth-based events (which I usually do), however, in this case I wanted to draw attention that ESA has a webcast.

maschnitz: it's great that people find the website useful. The link from ESA has certainly yielded many referrals. On 10 July (my local time in Australia), I had 2,200 visits (usually between 40 to 100).

Perhaps as a short term solution, for the few events you report that are on Earth (like the webcast) , you could just include text indicating what OWLT is and how to correct...

Sounds like a feasible idea. Too late to implement for Rosetta @ Lutetia, traffic to the site is too high at the moment and I won't risk messing up the database now

A webcast has started.
http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1244

"Rosetta is a spacecraft. Lutetia is an asteroid. Rosetta will fly by Lutetia." kind of stuff.

LOL, of course the images will be presented only after I board my flight in Dallas...

Well, we passed closest approach a few minutes ago.

Edit: And here comes the live webcast.

http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1246

Pics!

Phil

Behold Lutetia:

Edit: He beat me to it

Alice UVS is doing the same.

Contact reestablished following close approach

Wonderful images! 100 km across and no evidence of gravitional rounding. Any thoughts / evidence on what size that effect kicks in?

Congratulations to ESA.

fly-by mission accomplished.
heading to the comet now.

"100 km across and no evidence of gravitional rounding. Any thoughts / evidence on what size that effect kicks in?"

That depends on the internal strength of the object, including its temperature history. Vesta at 500 km across is noticeably irregular - but rocky - whereas icy Mimas is only 400 km across and a bit elongated by tidal effects but a nice ellipsoidal shape.

Phil

I just put the Lutetia close-up animation. I'll add more info for the Spanish speakers too: http://www.espaciosur.com.ar/2010/07/image...on-rosetta.html - Cheers.

Loiserl, you beat me. In my version, I introduced dissolvence between most recent frames because the time lapse is clearly larger...

Very easily done, and it really doesn't matter, does it?

Playing around with contrast a bit and rearranging the images in the big composite...

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One frame was flipped (mirror-image) left-right - the top one in the left column in this version.
The second image in the sequence (one up from lower left corner) is approximately the same view as the last image, so these cover a full rotation. They are approximately north-up here. Images of course are courtesy ESA and the Rosetta and OSIRIS teams, and a big thanks to them for releasing them so soon.

Phil

Thank you Phil for your analysis... I used last two frames (with some relative rotation) in order to create following stereograms:
crossed eyes:
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parallel eyes:
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Some artifacts/incongruences are due to slightly different illumination, I guess!

Live webcast is started

http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/5/1247

Lutetia and Saturn!!! http://webservices.esa.int/blog/gallery/5/..._and_Saturn.png

Reminds me of Phobos
http://webservices.esa.int/blog/gallery/5/...SIRIS_LAM_2.jpg

The best set of grooves on any object since Phobos. This has to put an end to the 'grooves caused by Mars ejecta' argument. fantastic object and a wonderful data set. And this is just the highest priority data, all the rest still to come.

Phil

Never seen before: an asteroid with a planet in its background... and it's not ITS "own" planet!

Very first thing I thought when seeing these as well, Phil.

The image with Saturn in the distance... (I think ESA's figuring out this outreach business...)

A bit of a colorization of that image:
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quick and dirt anaglyph:

Sweet, Gordan!

So far, gotta say that Rosetta would be a frontrunner choice if I was allowed to ride along with a spacecraft (remember the Mars flyby pic?)

Starting from now, this is my wallpaper!

Some parts of that terrain look so smooth, it reminds me of one MRO image where the surface imaged is so smooth you get the effect the camera is out of focus (and only a crater here and there broke that illusion).

WOW OH WOW OH WOW!

Someone tell me there's at least a three filter set of this image.

Strange, It looks like shadows. The first is clearly elongated. Optical errors or real shadows ?
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Crud in in the optics, I'd say.

Totally agree. It has a very "Phobosian" look about it. If I may coin a phrase.

Fantastic flyby! Evidently NAC camera worked flawlessly.

Some smooth areas - possible landslides ?

Don't worry. If there wasn't Gordan will provide one.

I'm kicking myself now because when I looked at the last few approach shots I thought I saw linear features that might be Phobos-like grooves (at the bottom of the images) but didn't have the courage to post.

Here's a quick composite showing Lutetia very approximately to scale with some other icy and rocky bodies from the Solar System.
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Nice, Nick! That's an excellent scale reference.

I'd love to see Triton on there for scale!

Above the smooth areas in the left crater the surface looks either wrinkled or layered.

Happy to oblige

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Thanks Nick- That shows just what I wanted!

Alan

Triton? Are you sure you don't mean Pluto?

Phil

looks that way. my guess would be that it is material displaced laterally when the small crater on the rim just above it hit.
a landslide true but one with a violent origin!

;-)

Just for a joke. Sorry NickF

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