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Solid Phosphorus and Fluorine Detected in Coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko | Astronomy – Sci-News.com
Using the COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (COSIMA) instrument on board ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, researchers have detected phosphorus and fluorine in solid…
Using the COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (COSIMA) instrument on board ESAs Rosetta spacecraft, researchers have detected phosphorus and fluorine in solid particles collected from the inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
This false-color image of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the Rosetta navigation camera on 15 June 2015 from a distance of 207 km from the comet center. Image credit: ESA / Rosetta / NAVCAM / CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.
Comets are remnants from the protoplanetary disk…
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