03-22-2004, 06:27 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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NASA Releases Detailed, High Res Pics of Comet Wild 2's Nucleus
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.
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03-22-2004, 10:05 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 14
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Whew!
A comet. For a second there, I thought it was a fly mountain!
Much worse than the the pig thing. 8O
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