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Crumbling Comet? The Great Debate About Whether Rosetta Rock 67P Is Breaking Apart
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 16:09
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– this post authored by Monica Grady, The Open University
It is almost six months since the Rosetta spacecraft completed its operations in a controlled dive onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimanko. The landing, after which Rosetta could no longer communicate with Earth, may have marked the end of data collection from the comet – but not the end of news about 67P. The archive of information amassed during the mission will be a rich source of material for many years. In fact, the data interpretation phase of the mission has barely begun.
Source: http://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/contributor.php?post=201703291733
