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The Ice Composition Close to the Surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Altwegg, Kathrin; Rubin, Martin; Läuter, Matthias +1 more

The relation between ice composition in the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the one hand and relative abundances of volatiles in the coma on the other hand is important for the interpretation of density measurements in the environment of the cometary nucleus. For the 2015 apparition, in situ measurements from the two ROSINA (Rosetta …