As the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft continues its mission by accompanying comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P, for short) on its journey into the inner solar system, sensing instruments have been studying it prior to an attempted a landing by Rosetta's Philae probe. As a result, the spacecraft has collected enough information to render a map of the various areas on the surface of the comet showing that it is composed of several different regions created by a range of forces acting upon the object... Continue Reading Rosetta maps comet's surface for first time
Section: Space
Tags: Comets, ESA, NASA, Rosetta, Spacecraft
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from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine http://www.gizmag.com/first-map-rosettas-comet-67p/33778/
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