Rosetta mission data dump leads to this fly-by video of asteroid Lutetia

Click the pic to go exploring!

Space geekdom is all excited at the moment about the release by the European Space Agency of copious amounts of data from the Rosetta mission that visited the asteroid Lutetia  - in July 2010. Lutetia was the largest asteroid visited by a spacecraft.

This picture is actually in colour.

Included were many photos, some of which have been assembled into a timelapse video of the fly-by:

Now here's some fun: can you make this photo pair go 3D? Just gently allow your eyes to go cross-eyed a little, and the centre of the three pictures will pop out at you. You can even move your head from side to side for full 3D fun. Make sure you embiggerate the pictures by clicking them first!

Emily Lakdawalla has more information and heaps more wonderful space geek stuff over on the Plantetary Society blog site. You can tweet your thanks to her: @elakdawalla