This picture of Tempel 1 was taken by NASA Deep Impact. Even though the spacecraft was over 10 days away from the comet when these data were acquired, it detected some of the molecules making up the comet gas and dust envelope, or coma.
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Title: Capturing the Coma
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
Date Created: 2005-06-24
Rights: JPL
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