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3D map exposes a comet’s every bump and dimple

New high-resolution model of comet 67P reveals fine features only tens of centimetres in size.

Scientists have built the most detailed model yet of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko using data collected by the Rosetta spacecraft. F. Preusker et al./Astron. Astrophys.

Planetary scientists have generated the best picture so far of the shape of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft orbited between 2014 and 2016.

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Nature 551, 275 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-05785-0

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