Thursday, November 4, 2010

Comet Hartley 2 Images

Looks like the flyby was successful.  Here are some images from the very slow NASA site - higher resolution images haven't even been released yet.


Pretty cool.  The comet nucleus is irregular in shape (not unusual) and covered with rubbly material.  The bright streaks are jets of gas streaming off from the solar wind.

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