
NASA Deep Space 1 flew by comet Borrelly on September 22, 2001 and took these measurements with its plasma instruments. These data show that the flow of ions around the comet rocky, icy nucleus.
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NASA ID
PIA03503
Date Created
November 3, 2001
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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