  The Aswan cliff on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko collapsed on 2015 July 10.
Thereby, relatively pristine comet material from a depth of ~12 m was exposed
at the surface. Observations of the collapse site by the microwave instrument
Rosetta/MIRO have been retrieved from 8 months prior to collapse, as well as
from 5, 7, and 11 months post-collapse. The MIRO data are analysed with
thermophysical and radiative transfer models. The pre-collapse observations are
consistent with a 30 MKS thermal inertia dust mantle with a thickness of at
least 3 cm. The post-collapse data are consistent with: 1) a dust/water-ice
mass ratio of 0.9$\pm$0.5 and a molar $\mathrm{CO_2}$ abundance of ~30 per cent
relative to water; 2) formation of a dust mantle after ~7 months, having a
thickness of a few millimetres or a fraction thereof; 3) a $\mathrm{CO_2}$ ice
sublimation front at 0.4 cm that withdrew to 2.0 cm and later to 20$\pm$6 cm;
4) a thermal inertia ranging 10-45 MKS; 5) a gas diffusivity that decreased
from $0.1\,\mathrm{m^2\,s^{-1}}$ to $0.001\,\mathrm{m^2\,s^{-1}}$; 6) presence
of a solid-state greenhouse effect parts of the time. The data and the analysis
provide a first empirical glimpse of how ice-rich cometary material ages and
evolves when exposed to solar heating.
