Comet 67P: A Dust Jet | Europe's Rosetta Mission
Where do comet tails come from? There are no obvious places on the nuclei of comets where jets can create comet tails. However, in 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft imaged a jet emerging from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and it flew right through it. This picture shows a bright plume emerging from a small circular dip bounded on one side by a 10-meter high wall. Analyses of Rosetta data show that the jet was composed of dust and water-ice. The rugged but otherwise unremarkable terrain indicates that something likely happened far under the porous surface to create the plume. This image was taken about two months before Rosetta's mission ended with a controlled impact onto Comet 67P's surface.
Image Credit: ESA, Rosetta, MPS, OSIRIS; UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Release Date: Nov. 26, 2023
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