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Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic 'Snow' on the Surface of a Comet
What you’re looking at is the surface of the comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is orbited by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe. The photo comes from Rosetta’s OSIRIS, or Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System. The raw data was collected on June 1, 2016, and posted publicly on March 22 of this year.
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I'm amazed it could have anything on it's surface,especially something as delicate as snow.