Comet Fog

 

Some days, when the conditions are right on Earth, you may wake up to a foggy morning. Earth fog is a thick suspension of water droplets that are hanging around at ground level.

If you explore comets, you might have the same experience, but for different reasons.

Comets are like dirty, rocky snowballs. Usually, comets spend most of life far from the sun where they stay icy. But, if their orbit takes them closer to the sun, the ice warms up and turns to a gas.

Sometimes, the gas and dust pop off the surface with enough energy to form a long tail. This tail can be millions of miles long, but very thin, like fog.

The Rocket Team likes to study comets. They contain frozen clues of the chemicals that existed when the solar system was formed. And scientists think there are billions of comets orbiting our Sun way beyond Pluto.

More info: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview

If you have ever explored a comet, tell me at

RamoneRocketeer -at- gmail -dot- com.