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The caves on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
CNES/ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/Guillaume Faury et al.
Now we have noticed caves on a comet for the primary time. The caves, recognized on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – often known as comet 67P – are stuffed with ice, which might assist clarify mysterious jets that astronomers have seen coming from the comet.
Whereas we all know roughly what comets are made from – generally rock, ice and frozen gases – we don’t know a lot about their inner construction. Caves might supply an easy accessibility level for scientists to find out about this inside, however in contrast to many planets and our bodies in…