NASA shoots, they score! That’s pretty awesome photography, considering the speeds and distances involved. NASA’s EPOXI Spacecraft Shoots Images of “Comet Hartley 2″ After a nearly 2.9-billion-mile (4.6-billion-kilometer) voyage, NASA’s EPOXI mission spacecraft has survived its risky rendezvous with comet 103P/Hartley 2 and has beamed back the first close-up images of the comet. This montage [...]
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