Open AccessComet Hartley 2 pictured in close‐up – from a recycled spacecraft…
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2010.51604_12.x
Subject(s) - spacecraft , comet , astrobiology , astronomy , physics
Comet Hartley 2 has been an indistinct green object in the night skies, but NASA's EPOXI mission has taken close‐up images of its bright, dumbbell‐shaped nucleus with jets of material leaving the surface.