A first peek beneath the surface of a comet
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
In some of the first research findings to be published from the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists including astronomer Peter Schloerb of the University of Massachusetts Amherst report early measurements of the comet's subsurface temperature and production of gas from the surface of its nucleus.