Akiva Bar-Nun

TL;DR: The temperature and density profiles, as determined by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI), from an altitude of 1,400 km down to the surface were higher than expected and the extent of atmospheric electricity was also hitherto unknown.

TL;DR: The direct in situ measurement of the D/H ratio in the Jupiter family comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the ROSINA mass spectrometer aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is found to be (5.3 ± 0.7) × 10−4—that is, approximately three times the terrestrial value.

TL;DR: The presence of volatile glycine accompanied by methylamine and ethylamines in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by the ROSINA (Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis) mass spectrometer demonstrates that comets could have played a crucial role in the emergence of life on Earth.

TL;DR: It is shown that argon, krypton and xenon in Jupiter's atmosphere are enriched to the same extent as the other heavy elements, which suggests that the planetesimals carrying these elements must have formed at temperatures lower than predicted by present models of giant-planet formation.

TL;DR: The observations indicate that the O2/H2O ratio is isotropic in the coma and does not change systematically with heliocentric distance, which suggests that primordial O2 was incorporated into the nucleus during the comet’s formation, which is unexpected given the low upper limits from remote sensing observations.