PIA06283: Wild 2: If You Were There
This is an artist's concept depicting a view of comet Wild 2 with emanating jets as seen from NASA's Stardust spacecraft during its flyby of the comet on Jan. 2, 2004.
 Target Name:  Wild 2
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Stardust 
 Spacecraft:  Stardust
 Instrument:  Stardust Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  3000 x 1688 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  California Institute of Technology 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06283.tif (4.875 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06283.jpg (525 kB)  

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This is an artist's concept depicting a view of comet Wild 2 as seen from NASA's Stardust spacecraft during its flyby of the comet on Jan. 2, 2004.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2004-06-17