image: OSIRIS clear filter image taken during the flyby of the Rosetta spacecraft at asteroid Lutetia on July 10, 2010. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 28, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. H. Sierks of Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, and colleagues, was titled, “Images of Asteroid 21 Lutetia: A Remnant Planetesimal from the Early Solar System.” view more
Credit: Image © ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA