Has The Mystery Of Comet 67P's Oxygen Just Been Explained?
O is a very responsive component and find molecular O ( O2)in space is quite rare . So it was surprising to see it being unloosen by Rosetta ’s comet in 2015 . Several ideas were put onwards to excuse it and chemic engineers at Caltech think they have now figured it out . In a paper bring out inNature Communications , the team suggests the O is produced from collisions ....