Comet Gets Its Close-Up
The second image of Comet Wild 2 from NASA's Stardust spacecraft shows a distant side view of the roughly spherical comet nucleus. Taken as Stardust approached comet after a 2 billion mile journey, the photo reveals one hemisphere in sunlight and the other in shadow, similar to a view of the quarter moon from Earth.
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