Capturing the Coma
This picture of Tempel 1 was taken by NASA Deep Impact. Even though the spacecraft was over 10 days away from the comet when these data were acquired, it detected some of the molecules making up the comet gas and dust envelope, or coma.
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NASA ID
PIA02101
Date Created
June 24, 2005
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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