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Final sequence of images before closest approach. Credit: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Asteroid Lutetia just before Closest approach
Farewell Lutetia. Credit: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Asteroid Lutetia Crescent
Zoom in on a possible landslide and boulders at the highest resolution. Credit: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Asteroid Lutetia Zoom In
At a distance of 36000km the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) took this image catching the planet Saturn in the background. Credit: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Asteroid Lutetia and Saturn
Lutetia at Closest approach. Credit: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Asteroid Lutetia at Closest approach
Asteroid Steins seen from a distance of 800 km, taken by the OSIRIS imaging system from two different perspectives. The effective diameter of the asteroid is 5 km, approximately as predicted. At the top of the asteroid (as shown in this image), a large crater, approximately 1.5-km in size, can be seen. Scientists were amazed that the asteroid survived the impact that was responsible for the crater. Credits: ESA ©2008 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPM/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Asteroid Steins
A 'thermal' map of the Venusian surface obtained by VIRTIS on 5 June 2007 (left) is compared here with a radar image of the same area obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s (right). ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA
 
 
A 'Thermal' Map of the Venusian Surface
This grey-scale image, obtained by the VIRTIS instrument on board ESA's Venus Express, shows the atmospheric region of Venus over flown by NASA's MESSENGER on 5 June 2007. The region of MESSENGER's closest approach is in the night side (marked by a circle). Credits: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA
 
 
VIRTIS Venus atmospheric image
This view of Mars (visible towards the top of the image) and of the Milky Way was taken by the OSRIS camera on board the Rosetta orbiter on 3 December 2006. In this image Mars is heavily overexposed and therefore surrounded by a halo of scattered light. Credits: ESA/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
 
 
Rosetta's view of Mars and the Milky Way
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