Rosetta's comet: A worldlet's core: Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Explorers of Minor Worlds)

‘ Rosetta has completely changed our picture of comets. Previously, they were pictured as dirty ice balls – or, as some prefer, icy dust balls – but now we know them, or at least this one, to be geologically complex worlds where a myriad of processes are at work creating the incredible surface structure and activity of the comet.’

The exploratory phase of Rosetta , the European Space Agency's mission to comet 67/p Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has ended years ago. Its data, however, continue to be examined and interpreted by many science teams all over the world. The present book, first published in 2019, has therefore been updated in its revised second edition to include new and improved results published till spring 2024. Learn about rocks climbing uphills, the QUaCK projection, dust dunes and other wonders of this little worldlet shaped like a kilometre-sized rubberduck in space.