Rosetta’s Comet Target ‘Releases’ Plentiful Water

By DC Agle \ JPL, Dwayne Brown | NASA, Markus Bauer | ESA on Jul 1, 2014   Featured, Science/Education  

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is releasing the Earthly equivalent of two glasses of water into space every second. The observations were made by the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO), aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft on June 6, 2014. The detection of water vapor has implications not only for cometary science, but also for mission […]