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The Philae lander reveals low-strength primitive ice inside cometary boulders – Nature.com

When the Philae lander bounced on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, it exposed primitive icy-dust material within cometary boulders; the intrinsic…

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