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Special Issue: Philae Results Shed Light on the Nature of Comets (5 of 6)

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Special Issue: Philae Results Shed Light on the Nature of Comets (5 of 6)

image: The image shows comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on 2014 Nov 12, 14:41:20 UTC from a distance of approximately 3 km from the surface and a resolution of about 3m per pixel. 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." view more 

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


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