The thin gnat-voice of 67p/Churyumov–Gerasimenko calls to Half Dome, Yosemite

A photo of a kilometer high cliff on the comet 67p/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.  The photo was taken on 14 October 2014 by the Rosetta spacecraft when Rosetta and the comet were more than 500 millions km from Earth.

As wondrously magnificent as that is, it is even more so when it reminds you of a famous picture from Earth.

Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park by Ansel Adams, taken in 1960 is perhaps Adams' most iconic picture.  Half Dome rises about 1.5 kilometers above Yosemite Valley.  

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However, Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927 is perhaps the one which is most similar to the comet picture.

87 years apart, 500 million kilometers and the echoes across space and time are there.  

Makes me think of those lines from Rupert Brooke's poem, The Jolly Company.

I heard the thin gnat-voices cry,

Star to faint star, across the sky.