MiARD projectA number of scientists who worked on the MiARD project have subsequently contributed to a recent paper in the journal Nature that seeks to explain how comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko got its current shape. See Bilobate comet morphology and internal structure controlled by shear deformation
A summary in lay person’s language has been provided by ESA.
The figure above shows a computational grid from Ying Liao at the University of Bern made from an accurate shape model of comet 67P. This grid (with over…
This GIF animation shows the comet using shape data from the ‘MTPD009’ model derived during the early part of the mission using images from the NavCam navigational camera…