Rosetta Team Names Comet Features for Lost Colleagues

Two prominent features on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were selected by the European Space Agency's Rosetta team to be dedicated to two mission colleagues, respectively, who recently passed away. "These two features were chosen for their prominence on Comet 67P/C-G, and for their very distinctive and striking gatelike appearances, considered to be highly appropriate monuments for our absent colleagues," Taylor wrote. The C. Alexander Gate, located on the smaller lobe of Comet 67P/C-G, has bee