Dust grains from Comet 67P

One of the target plates from Rosetta’s Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (COSIMA), showing dust grains from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, collected between 11 August and 12 December 2014.

The target plate measures 1cm across. Some of the particles are named by the COSIMA team.

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