Special Issue: Rosetta Begins Its Comet Tale (5 of 18) (IMAGE)

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Special Issue: Rosetta Begins Its Comet Tale (5 of 18)

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GIADA collecting a cometary dust grain. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 23, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Rotundi at Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome, Italy, and colleagues was titled, "Dust measurements in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko inbound to the Sun."

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[Credit: ESA/Rosetta/GIADA/Univ Parthenope NA/INAF-OAC/IAA/INAF-IAPS]

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