Thursday, November 04, 2010

PHOTO OF THE DAY... The image below is of Comet Hartley 2, whose nucleus NASA’s EPOXI spacecraft (formerly known as Deep Impact) flew within 435 miles of at around 7 AM Pacific Daylight Time today. Deep Impact, FYI, was the spacecraft that released an ‘Impactor’ (which contained a CD bearing the names of 625,000 people...including that of Yours Truly) which smashed into the nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. For more info on today’s successful flyby, click here.

An image of Comet Hartley 2 taken by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft during its flyby of the comet on Nov. 4, 2010.
NASA / JPL - Caltech / UMD
Posted by Richard Par at 10:26 AM
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