Comet Hartley 2 Looms Large in the Sky
NASA EPOXI mission took this image of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 2, 2010. The spacecraft will fly by the comet on Nov. 4, 2010. The white blob and the halo around it are the comet outer cloud of gas and dust, called a coma.
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NASA ID
PIA13566
Date Created
November 3, 2010
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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