The Imhotep plain on the larger of the two lobes of the comet, (c) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
The Imhotep plain on the larger of the two lobes of the comet, (c) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
The Imhotep plain on the larger of the two lobes is strikingly smooth and flat. A small sinuous step in the terrain suggests that material erosion increases substantially when the comet becomes more active.
