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On the attempts to measure water (and other volatiles) directly at the surface of a comet

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Published in 2017 at "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences"

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0385

Abstract: The Ptolemy instrument on the Philae lander (of the Rosetta space mission) was able to make measurements of the major volatiles, water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, directly at the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. We… read more here.

Keywords: surface comet; water; directly surface; measure water ... See more keywords