Special Issue: Philae Results Shed Light on the Nature of Comets (6 of 6) (VIDEO)

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Philae descent onto comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is shown as seen by ROLIS. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 31, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Mottola at German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "The structure of the regolith on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from ROLIS descent imaging."

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[Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/ROLIS/DLR]

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