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Comet dust – Estelle
02 MAR. 2016 publication date 1020 Views

Example of a shattered particle cluster Estelle, one of the most tightly-packed shattered clusters identified in the dust collected by Rosetta’s COSIMA instrument.

For more information, see Profiling COSIMA’s dust grain family

Credits

ESA/Rosetta/MPS for COSIMA Team MPS/CSNSM/UNIBW/TUORLA/IWF/IAS/ESA/BUW/MPE/LPC2E/LCM/FMI/UTU/LISA/UOFC/vH&S/Langevin et al (2016)

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