Exposed Water Ice on Comet Reveals Clues About Its Evolution

Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft has spotted big grains of water ice on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; the grains may have formed after heat from the sun vaporized buried water ice, which then recondensed and was redeposited.

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