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Complex organosulfur molecules on comet 67P: Evidence from Rosetta orbiter and the lab

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The Rosetta orbiter spectrometer for ion and neutral analysis (ROSINA) instrument orbited comet 67P to revolutionize our understanding of cometary material composition. A key finding of the satellite was to explore the composition of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In a new report published in Science Advances, Ahmed Mahjoub and a team of planetary scientists in the Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech, the Space Science Institute Colorado, and the University of Bern in Switzerland, used the ROSINA data to study dust particles volatilized during a dust event in September 2016.

in cometary materials, alongside further insights to the composition of the semi-volatile phases of comet 67P.

Rosetta: The comet-chasing European Space Agency probe that deployed its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P. This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth. Image credit: ESA/landru79. In this work, Mahjoub and colleagues discussed the data gathered from the Rosetta probe and ROSINA during an event of enhanced dust impact on the instrument.

 

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