Anticyclone over the South Pacific
16 November 2009 - Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it. Cloud structures over the South Pacific, seen with the OSIRIS Imaging System's narrow-angle camera on 13 November at 06:48 CET. The clouds are part of an anticyclone that is visible close to the centre of the image below. This false-colour composite was generated from the orange, green and blue optical colour filters. It depicts a portion of the scene below with five times the resolution. Taken three minutes before the image above, this image is shown in a logarithmic scale to bring out details in the varying light intensity.
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