Activity and active areas of the nucleus of Rosetta's comet
Tóth Imre
MTA CSFK CSI
The ESA's Rosetta space probe carries out detailed studies at closest vicinity of
the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P) in order to reveal
its physical properties, determine chemical composition, and there is a purpose the
long-term tracking of the gas and dust release activity, as well as understanding the
activity mechanisms of the comets. Comet 67P passed its perihelion just in August and
apropos of this seminar talk summarizes the results claimed by the Rosetta mission
so far and with special emphases of activity areas identified up to now. From the
results claimed by studies of active surface holes and pits observed with the OSIRIS
imaging system the near-surface interior structure of the nucleus may be revealed.
These results were published by the OSIRIS team in a Nature journal paper with a
coauthor who is a researcher of the MTA CSFK KTM CSI. In addition, the results
claimed up to now by the instruments of Philae lander will also be presented in brief.
