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Outgassing

interesting stretch of image to show outgassing

Dennis Wellnitz
Science Team Member

University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy
College Park, MD

Dennis's analysis of regions along the terminator revealed an active region near the south pole of the comet that is not in direct sunlight.

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