This is a exposure of a elephantine boulder on top of another gargantuan boulder . And by another elephantine boulder we intend Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko . The mental image was captured by Rosetta ’s OSIRIS narrow - angle camera from a distance of 17.7 mile ( 28.5 kilometer ) .
Yay , at long last a gamey - resolution icon of the comet ’s ’ surface . The ESA ’s Rosetta team have dubbed the rock Cheops . It ’s about 147 feet ( 45 meters ) at its widest and is the largest structure withina group of boulderslocated on the scurvy side of the comet ’s big lobe .
The bunch reminded the scientists of the far-famed Pyramids of Egypt at Giza , so they named this rock after the declamatory of those pyramids , the Great Pyramid , which was built for Cheops .
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Credits : ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA
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