One of the many photos the European Space Agency robot spacecraft Rosetta has taken of Comet 67P, with which it rendezvoused last week.
It later dispatched a tiny lander to the surface, which unfortunately landed in a shadow preventing its solar panels from drawing enough ultraviolet to power its batteries for drilling samples and examining them. A good reason for stifling the green weenies and providing radioisotope power next time.
The whole encounter is a reminder of ScFi writer G. David Nordley’s good novella This Old Rock about a far-future family homesteading an asteroid to mine and sell its minerals.
UPDATE: Losing power from its shadowed solar collector the little lander is having trouble calling home. But Philae might revive itself next August when P67 nears the sun.
MORE: Stupidly, even NASA is backing off nuclear power for political reasons. But still fighting “global warming” like crazy for, wait for it, political reasons.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
No worries, Russians could always provide some Plutonium. Like they provide the rides to the orbit, willingly. Or do they still?
They provide them to the station where they have their own people, however much Putin cares about them, but plutonium? I’m sure the greens would raise hell if they knew, not only for the possibility of a launch accident but for their ignorance of how deadly solar radiation already is in space.