Rosetta Comet ‘Pouring’ More Water Into Space


Credit: space.com

New details provided by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has revealed a significant increase in the amount of water “pouring” out of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, on which the mission’s Philae lander touched down in November.

According to scientists, the 2.5-mile-wide comet was releasing about 1.2 liters of water into space every second at the end of August last year. A study based on the observations made by NASA’s Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) aboard the spacecraft, was published in a special Thursday issue of the journal Science.


“In observations over a period of three months [June through August, 2014], the amount of water in vapor form that the comet was dumping into space grew about tenfold,” Sam Gulkis, principal investigator of the MIRO instrument at NASA, and the study’s lead author, said in a statement.  Read more >>

Source:  http://www.msn.com

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