[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Originally Posted by pluto

I look forward to hearing what the various experiments have to say about the geology of the comet but I don't think they've released much just yet.

That "Geological Summary" is just a comment under the ESA picture by somebody interpreting the heavily compressed images that have been released. The raw images won't be released until the science teams have had a chance to work through all the data they've got and they've published their results.

I thought that the bright stuff in that image looked just like ice but the image has so many compression artifacts that those 'ice' features could literally just be due to the compression.

P.S. the MUPUS team did release a short statement about some of the physical properties which I'll paste here:

Thanks Hugh, good pick up.
That is a much better insight into what they have actually found ! Pretty much exactly the opposite of what turns out to be commentary on the image alone !