Dune-like structures

Date: 21 January 2015
Satellite: Rosetta
Depicts: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Evidence of dune-like structures in the surface dust of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Features like this may be the result of localised gas-driven transport of surface dust. The image was taken by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 23 August 2014.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Last Update: 1 September 2019