The perfume of the comet

23 octubre 2014

How does a comet smell? Since early August the Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) is sniffing the fumes of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko with its two mass spectrometers. The detected chemistry in the coma of the comet is surprisingly rich already at more than 400 million kilometers from the Sun. 
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/_rsrqZnTwBU/141023091805.htm

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