Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 02, 2022
With an eye toward a possible return mission years in the future, Cornell University astronomers have shown how smooth terrains - a good place to land a spacecraft and to scoop up samples - evolve on the icy world of comets. By applying thermal models to data gathered by the Rosetta mission - which caught up to the barbell-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko almost a decade ago - they s
Cornell astronomers show how terrain evolves on icy comets
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