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Nicolas Thomas1, Holger Sierks2, Cesare Barbieri3, Philippe L Lamy4, Rafael Rodrigo5, Hans Rickman6, Detlef Koschny7, Horst Uwe Keller8, Jessica Agarwal2, Michael F A'Hearn9, Francesco Angrilli10, Anne-Therese Auger11, M Antonella Barucci12, Jean-Loup Bertaux13, Ivano Bertini14, Sebastien Besse7, Dennis Bodewits9, Gabriele Cremonese15, Vania Da Deppo16, Björn Davidsson17, Mariolino De Cecco18, Stefano Debei10, Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry19, Francesca Ferri14, Sonia Fornasier12, Marco Fulle20, Lorenza Giacomini21, Olivier Groussin11, Pedro J Gutierrez22, Carsten Güttler2, Stubbe F Hviid23, Wing-Huen Ip24, Laurent Jorda25, Jörg Knollenberg26, J-Rainer Kramm2, Ekkehard Kührt26, Michael Küppers27, Fiorangela La Forgia3, Luisa M Lara22, Monica Lazzarin3, Josè J Lopez Moreno22, Sara Magrin3, Simone Marchi28, Francesco Marzari3, Matteo Massironi29, Harald Michalik30, Richard Moissl27, Stefano Mottola26, Giampiero Naletto31, Nilda Oklay2, Maurizio Pajola14, Antoine Pommerol19, Frank Preusker26, Lola Sabau32, Frank Scholten26, Colin Snodgrass33, Cecilia Tubiana2, Jean-Baptiste Vincent2, Klaus-Peter Wenzel7.
Abstract
Images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired by the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System) imaging system onboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft at scales of better than 0.8 meter per pixel show a wide variety of different structures and textures. The data show the importance of airfall, surface dust transport, mass wasting, and insolation weathering for cometary surface evolution, and they offer some support for subsurface fluidization models and mass loss through the ejection of large chunks of material.Entities:
Year: 2015 PMID: 25613893 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0440
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728