Icy Visitor from Beyond
This visitor from deep space, seen here by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is comet Hartley 2, the destination for NASA EPOXI mission. The comet tail is seen here as a fuzzy streak to the right of the comet.
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NASA ID
PIA13438
Date Created
October 5, 2010
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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