Misc

Rumor and new photos suggest Rosetta scientists withheld color photos of comet 67P because they comet is actually red like iron slag or Mars, which they can't explain.

"'We're a bit surprised at just how unreflective the comet's surface is and how little evidence of exposed water-ice it shows,' said Alan Stern, Alice principal investigator at the time."

They're surprised because their theory is wrong.

"For several months, there has also been controversy over why colour images, and other data, from Rosetta's comet have been kept behind closed doors.

'The scientists who develop the instruments that are put on Rosetta have the right to use the data for their own purposes for six months – we have difficulties to even get pictures from them,' Paulo Ferri, Rosetta mission director told MailOnline.

'After six months, they will be open to the science community. But they are very, very cautious.'

Mr Ferri says, 'there must be something big' in the image which has caused the secrecy up until now. He believe data from Rosetta could help explain how the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago."

More likely just the opposite.

Radiocarbon dating claims mastodons went extinct before humans migrated to America.