--- title: Spacecraft Snaps Casual Selfie With Passing Comet description: Selfies are no longer just a human trend canonical: https://time.com/3319029/spacecraft-comet-selfie/ author: Adam Glanzman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-10T21:59:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:06:49.437Z article:section: Science og:title: Spacecraft Snaps Casual Selfie With Passing Comet og:description: Selfies are no longer just a human trend og:url: https://time.com/3319029/spacecraft-comet-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5595cbbe8bf67ce/6986a2aa810bbbc931c93596/rosetta_mission_selfie_at_comet.png?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Rosetta_mission_selfie_at_comet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Spacecraft Snaps Casual Selfie With Passing Comet twitter:description: Selfies are no longer just a human trend twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5595cbbe8bf67ce/6986a2aa810bbbc931c93596/rosetta_mission_selfie_at_comet.png?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Spacecraft Snaps Casual Selfie With Passing Comet > Sponsored content. 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Two images with different exposure times were combined to bring out the faint details in this very high contrast situation. ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA by [Adam Glanzman](https://time.com/author/adam-glanzman/) ## Adam Glanzman Sep 10, 2014 9:59 PM UTC The [Mars Curiosity Rover](http://time.com/2913065/mars-curiosity-rover-selfie/) isn’t the only lunar explorer that knows how to take a selfie these days. The first of its kind—the Rosetta Spacecraft was designed to orbit and land on a comet in outer-space. This mission, which was launched by the European Space Agency in 2004, has finally approached the comet it was set to land on, and was at a distance of approximately 50 kilometers away from the comet when the selfie was snapped. A special camera onboard Rosetta’s [Philae Lander](http://www.esa.int/Our%5FActivities/Space%5FScience/Rosetta/The%5FRosetta%5Flander) called CIVA (Comet Nucleus Infrared and Visible Analyzer) captured the image above using multiple exposures to bring out the fine details in both the comet and spacecraft. 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