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PIA13602: Flight of the Comet

Image taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. The spacecraft came within about 700 kilometers (435 miles) of the comet's nucleus at the time of closest approach.

Target Name:	Hartley 2
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	EPOXI
Spacecraft:	Deep Impact (DIXI)
Instrument:	Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
Product Size:	513 x 448 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	University of Maryland
Other Information:	JPL News Release 2010-375
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA13602.tif (230.3 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA13602.jpg (9.195 kB)

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This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. During the encounter, the spacecraft and comet whisked past each other at a speed of 12.3 kilometers per second (27,560 miles per hour). The spacecraft came within about 700 kilometers (435 miles) of the comet's nucleus at the time of closest approach.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Image Addition Date:

2010-11-05