Tuesday, 2 June 2015

NASA Instrument on Rosetta Makes Comet Atmosphere Discovery

Rosetta Comet

NASA's Alice instrument on Rosetta finds that electrons near its target comet cause rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules released from the comet's nucleus.





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