Tuesday 26 November 2019

astrophysics - What mechanism is responsible for the creation of these dunes on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko?



What mechanism is responsible for the creation of these dunes on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko?


The following high resolution picture from ESA's Rosetta mission shows the dunes:


picture of comet



At a distance of 7.8 km from the surface, the image scale is about 66.5 cm/pixel, so each 1024 x 1024 pixel frame is about 680 m across (although if we assume the furthest point away is an additional ~1 km further from the centre, the image scale is about 92 cm/pixel).



So the scale of the dunes is on the order of tens of meters along the crest. And each crest are probably just a few meters apart.




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