Rosetta Comet is Darker than Charcoal

Friday, September 5, 2014 - 18:10 in Astronomy & Space

A NASA instrument onboard Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has shown that the core of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is unusually dark--darker than charcoal-black--when viewed at ultraviolet wavelengths.

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