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View Full Version : NASA Releases Detailed, High Res Pics of Comet Wild 2's Nucleus


Pat Logsdon
03-22-2004, 06:27 PM
Per the BBC, "The image shows a pockmarked "flying mountain" strewn with jets of gas and dust that billow in the solar wind.

Looking around, [an] astronaut would see a landscape of small hills, of crumbling dust and occasionally huge depressions that are the entrances to a vast subterranean network of constantly shifting caverns."

Read the article here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3557205.stm).

lowair
03-22-2004, 10:05 PM
Whew!
A comet. For a second there, I thought it was a fly mountain!
Much worse than the the pig thing. 8O