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June 26, 2015

MIRO maps water in comet's coma
Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2015
In a paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, the MIRO team present their first map of water vapour in the coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. MIRO, the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter, first detected the emission from water molecules in the coma of Comet 67P/C-G on 6 June 2014, when Rosetta was 350 000 km from the comet, approximately equivalent to the distance of the Earth from the Moon. At the time, the comet was 3.9 AU - about 580 million km - ... read more

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