Image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the resting place of the Rosetta spacecraft and Philae lander, as seen in 2015 from a distance of 317 km (197 miles). Source: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0All high-resolution images and data from Rosetta’s pioneering mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are now available in the archives of the European Space Agency (ESA). This latest release includes images of Philae, the lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until it separated to land on the comet, as well as Rosetta’s final descent to the comet’s surface.

The images are available in both the Archive Image Browser and the Planetary Science Archive. The Archive Image Browser also hosts images captured by the spacecraft’s Navigation Camera, while the Planetary Science Archive contains publicly available data from all eleven science instruments onboard Rosetta, and from ESA’s other Solar System exploration missions.

The final batch of high-resolution images from Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera covers the period from late July 2016 to the mission's end on September 30, 2016. It brings the total count of images from the narrow- and wide-angle cameras to nearly 100,000 across the spacecraft’s 12-year journey through space, including early flybys of Earth, Mars and two asteroids before arriving at the comet.

In the mission’s last hours, as Rosetta moved closer toward the surface of the comet, it scanned across an ancient pit and finally sent back images showing what would become its resting place. Researchers were able to reconstruct a last image from the final telemetry packets sent back when Rosetta was within about 20 m of the surface.

All OSIRIS images are now available under a Creative Commons license.