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Measuring Erosional and Depositional Patterns Across Comet 67P's Imhotep Region

Soderblom, J. M.; Hayes, A. G.; Kirk, R. L. +8 more

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko displays a pronounced hemispherical dichotomy in surface morphology, where the southern hemisphere exhibits more erosional features than the northern hemisphere due to receiving much greater solar radiation. Consequently, it is generally assumed that particles are ejected from the southern hemisphere through sublima…