Caves seen on the surface of a comet for the first time
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- January 13, 2024
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The caves on comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko CNES/ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/Guillaume Faury et al. We have spotted caves on a comet for the first time. The caves, identified on comet – also known as comet 67P – are full of ice, which could help explain mysterious jets that astronomers have seen coming from the comet. While we know roughly what comets are made of – commonly rock, ice and frozen gases – we don’t know much about their internal structure. Caves could offer an easy access point for scientists to learn about this interior, but unlike many planets and bodies in…