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Remote sensing of a comet at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths from an orbiting spacecraft

Hartogh, Paul; Lellouch, Emmanuel; Rauer, Heike +19 more

The ESA Rosetta Spacecraft, launched on March 2, 2004 with the ultimate destination being Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, carries a relatively small and lightweight millimeter-submillimeter spectrometer instrument, the first of its kind launched into deep space. The instrument, named Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO), consists o…