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Rosetta takes comet’s temperature

Friday, August 1, 2014 - 07:30 in Astronomy & Space

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has made its first temperature measurements of its target comet, finding that it is too hot to be covered in ice and must instead have a dark, dusty crust.

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