Wondering About Comets.

No, I am not wondering about comments, I am wondering about comets, or at least a couple of them.  Probes have been sent to take a close look at comets and those comets are all different.  Rosetta (a space craft or probe) launched back on March 2, 2004, became the first spacecraft to orbit a comet.  We think of comets as visitors from outer space with long colorful tails, usually two, a dust trail and an ionized particle trail.  The dust trail points backwards to its movement and the ion trail points away from the sun.  But, what about when a comet is located nowhere near the sun?  Well, then it is just a big lump consisting of a mixture of frozen ice and dust, and it looks like an asteroid.

I thought maybe you would be interested in seeing what a comet looks like way out in space.  So, here are a couple of pictures.  This first one is a mosaic of four pictures put together to make one picture.  Notice that this comet has two lobes separated by a thin column: 

 

 And this picture from another view point reminds me of a mythical beast.  See its head to the upper left corner and its flowing mane:

 

A closer picture of the comet shows crators filled with rubble from countless collisions with smaller objects during its ageless journey:

 

 

I am sure glad that the probe got these wonderful pictures of these tiny worlds.  I hope your world will give you a great day today.  Enjoy, you hear?