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Table 6
Mass release rate of H2O from the surface of 67P at the location of H2O ice-rich spots.
| Spot | T [K] |  [kg m-2 s-1] |
OSIRIS observations |
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| 1 | 203 | 3.357 × 10-4 | Size receded from 57 m |
| to 36 m in 3 weeks | |||
| 2 | 197 | 1.336 × 10-4 | Observed for 5 weeks |
| 3 | 218 | 2.485 × 10-3 | Size receded from 18 m |
| to 8 m in 3 weeks, disappear | |||
| in the following 3 weeks | |||
| 4 | 168 | 0.662 × 10-6 | Cluster stable for 11 weeks |
| 5 | 188 | 3.003 × 10-5 | Stable for 13 weeks |
| 6 | 179 | 0.625 × 10-5 | Cluster stable for 13 weeks |
| 7 | 163 | 2.156 × 10-7 | Cluster stable for 3 weeks |
| 8 | 158 | 0.701 × 10-7 | Stable for 15 weeks |
Notes. In the last column an indication of the observed lifetime of the spots is summarised.
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