Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in March 2015. Comet 67P was the first comet ever known to emit molecular oxygen, a molecule rarely found throughout the universe because of its chemical reactivity and the difficulty in detecting it.

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ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

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