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Rainbow comet with a heart of sponge – Phys.org
A permeable heart with a hardened facade—the resting place of Rosetta’s lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the “rubber duck” shaped-body looping around the Sun.
A permeable heart with a hardened facadethe resting place of Rosetta’s lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the “rubber duck” shaped-body looping around the Sun.
A recent study suggests that the comet’s interior is more porous than the material near the surface. The results confirm that solar radiation has significantly modified the comet’s surface as it travels through space between the orbits of Jupiter and Earth. Heat from the Sun triggers an ejec…
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