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End of an Era
A vast asteroid or comet, 7 miles (10 km) across, slams into the Earth at a speed measured in kilometres per second. It was an event such as this which ended the reign of the dinosaurs and other species some 65 million years ago, the so-called Cretac...
Keywords: asteroid, comet, Earth, Cretaceous, impact, extinction, collision, Paleogene

Epicentre
Ever imagined what a comet was like under all that gas and dust? Perhaps it would look something like this. I based this image on photographs of the nucleus of Comet Halley, taken by the Giotto probe in 1985. But this is just supposed to be a general...
Keywords: comet, coma, nucleus

Long Hair
Though comets themselves are only kilometres across, the gas and dust freed from their icy surfaces can stretch vast distances, blown by the solar wind and by radiation pressure. Here, a bright comet passes behind the Earth as it heads towards the Su...
Keywords: comet, Earth, Moon, coma, planet, terrestrial planet

Philae
This image depicts the first ever landing of a probe on the surface of a comet. The lander, called Philae, is part of the European mission Rosetta, which was finally launched on 2 March 2004. In early 2014, having spent ten years in space and having ...
Keywords: Rosetta, probe, comet, nucleus, Philae, 67P, Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Philae Deployed
This is an animation of the Philae probe heading towards the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The probe is expected to land on the comet nucleus in November 2014, after being dispatched from the Rosetta mothership in orbit around the comet.   &n...
Keywords: Rosetta, probe, comet, nucleus, Philae, animation, 67P, Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Philae Lander
This is an animation of the Philae probe on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The probe is expected to land on the comet nucleus in November 2014, after being dispatched from the Rosetta mothership in orbit around the comet.   &nbs...
Keywords: Rosetta, probe, comet, nucleus, Philae, animation, 67P, Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Rendezvous Halley
This was an image I did for the July 1999 edition of UK magazine Frontiers, to illustrate a solar sail. Solar sails are gigantic sheets of highly reflective but wafer-thin material. They intercept photons – particles of light – from the Sun, and ...
Keywords: comet, future, light sail, solar sail, spacecraft

Solar System Animation
Animation of the eight major planets in the Solar System, along with a comet and the asteroid belt. The planets are not to scale, and neither are their relative distances.       Please like or subscribe to my YouTube channel.
Keywords: Sun, planet, animation, comet, asteroid, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, S...

Comets Bringing Water
A view of the early Earth and Moon system, still enduring the seemingly endless bombardment of planetesimals and comets that rained down for the first several hundred million years of the pair's existence. It is thought that impacts by icy comets hel...
Keywords: comet, Earth, Moon, impact, water, ocean, protoplanet, planetesimal, planet, ter...

Long-Distance Caller
This picture was a commission for the cover of the UK magazine Quest , in June 1997. The image's title is indicative of the fact that many comets come from way beyond the Solar System – taking millions of years to get here – and are in essence on...
Keywords: landscape, comet, traditional art

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