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Fig. 5

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Location of the Rosetta orbiter from January to September 2016 in the CSEQ coordinate frame showing the close-nucleus orbits during the last months of cometary operations. The center of mass of the cometary nucleus is located at the origin of the coordinate frame, and the x-axis points from the comet to the Sun. The time is color-coded. The time step is 4 h. The spacecraft moved a few hundred kilometers away from the comet nucleus between 24 March and 17 April 2016, so that the corresponding locations are not displayed here.

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