ESA'S Rosetta Team Reports What It Saw During Deep Impact

Observations of the comet 9P/Tempel after NASA's Deep Impact mission suggest that comets are composed primarily of dust held together by ice, rather than of ice contaminated with dust, as previously thought. Scientists have determined this on the basis of readings from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft...

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