Friday, November 05, 2010
Comet flyby amazing shot
NASA's Deep Impact "EPOXI" mission reported a very successful flyby of the comet Hartley 2 on Thursday. The probe passed 435 miles overhead of the primordial snowball at 27,000 miles-per-hour.
Deep Impact's fly-by reveals a small, peanut-shaped comet that has been spitting out cyanide for days.