Stardust-NExT-Temple-1-departure-sequence
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Sequence of images from the Stardust-NExT mission to Comet Temple 1 on February 14, 2011.
The sequence starts with an image just past closest approach of Comet Temple 1, to a point where the spacecraft is 2,250 km away. Total elapsed time for this sequence is 4 minutes. (so the spacecraft was travelling over 500 km / minute!)
Images and information from the mission can be found here: stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/
Images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Maryland / Cornell / animation by Mike Malaska
Stardust-NExT-Temple-1-departure-sequence
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Sequence of images from the Stardust-NExT mission to Comet Temple 1 on February 14, 2011.
The sequence starts with an image just past closest approach of Comet Temple 1, to a point where the spacecraft is 2,250 km away. Total elapsed time for this sequence is 4 minutes. (so the spacecraft was travelling over 500 km / minute!)
Images and information from the mission can be found here: stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/
Images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Maryland / Cornell / animation by Mike Malaska