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This first image of comet 103P/Hartley 2 was taken from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft 60 days prior to the spacecraft's flyby of the comet.
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Deep Impact Spacecraft's First Glimpse of Comet Hartley 2

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This first image of comet 103P/Hartley 2 was taken from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft 60 days prior to the spacecraft's flyby of the comet.

Seven successive one-minute exposures taken by the spacecraft's Medium Resolution Imager were combined to make this single image. The exposures were taken on Sept 5 beginning at about 6:30 a.m. PDT (9:30 a.m. EDT, 13:30 UTC). The comet was 60 million kilometers (37.2 million miles) from the spacecraft when the set of images were taken.

Image details

ID#:
PIA13374

Date added:
2010-09-08

Target:
Comet

Mission:
Deep Impact

Spacecraft:
Deep Impact

Instruments:
Medium Resolution Imager (MRI)

Size:
512 x 512 pixels (width x height)

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PIA13374.tif (0.26 MB)

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PIA13374.jpg (0.05 MB)

Image credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland