Rosetta collects and examines space dust samples from comet 67P

(Phys.org)—A European team of researchers has reported on comet dust sample examinations being conducted by the Rosetta space probe—by publishing a Letter in the journal Nature describing the types of experiments the probe has been conducting and what it has found thus far regarding space dust grains. Ludmilla Kolokolova with the University of Maryland offers a News & Views take on the work done by the team in the same journal issue.

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