... into a huge icy ball. This material is likely to have been at or beyond the ‘snowline’, in a protoplanetary disk, where carbon monoxide, and other compounds such as water condense into solid ice particles; if formation begins too close to the...
... of three instruments mounted on one side of the spacecraft, EMUS will also determine the abundance and variability of carbon monoxide in the thermosphere on sub-seasonal timescales. Hope is also carrying a high-resolution multiband camera called the...