June 19, 2013

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NASA’s EPOXI Spacecraft Shoots Images of “Comet Hartley 2″

Comet Hartley 2

After a nearly 2.9-billion-mile (4.6-billion-kilometer) voyage, NASA’s EPOXI mission spacecraft has survived its risky rendezvous with comet 103P/Hartley 2 and has beamed back the first close-up images of the comet. This montage of five pictures, for example, shows Hartley 2′s nucleus as the craft was flying toward and under the icy body on Thursday. The [...]