The Philae lander reveals low-strength primitive ice inside cometary boulders

Laurence O’rourke , Philip Heinisch , Jürgen Blum , Sonia Fornasier (1, 2) , Gianrico Filacchione , Hong van Hoang (1, 3) , Mauro Ciarniello , Andrea Raponi , Bastian Gundlach , Rafael Andrés Blasco , Björn Grieger , Karl-Heinz Glassmeier , Michael Küppers , Alessandra Rotundi , Olivier Groussin (4) , Dominique Bockelée-Morvan (1) , Hans-Ulrich Auster , Nilda Oklay , Gerhard Paar , Maria del Pilar Caballo Perucha , Gabor Kovacs , Laurent Jorda (4) , Jean-Baptiste Vincent , Fabrizio Capaccioni , Nicolas Biver (1) , Joel Wm. Parker , Cecilia Tubiana , Holger Sierks

1 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
2 IUF - Institut Universitaire de France
3 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
4 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

Domains: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

Laurence O’rourke, Philip Heinisch, Jürgen Blum, Sonia Fornasier, Gianrico Filacchione, et al.. The Philae lander reveals low-strength primitive ice inside cometary boulders. Nature, 2020, 586 (7831), pp.697-701. ⟨10.1038/s41586-020-2834-3⟩. ⟨insu-03006719⟩