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COMET WILD 2
Image 1:
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.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
More Information:
Stardust home page
Image 2:
This composite image was taken by the navigation camera during the close approach phase of Stardust's Jan 2, 2004 flyby of comet Wild 2. Several large depressed regions can be seen. Comet Wild 2 is about five kilometers (3.1 miles) in diameter.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL
More Information:
NASA home page
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