Valentine's Day Comet Encounter (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Valentine's Day Comet Encounter

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An artist envisions what the approach of NASA's Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft may look like when it arrives at Comet Tempel 1 on Valentine's Day. The University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument will be among the instruments collecting data from Tempel 1, the first comet to be visited twice by spacecraft.

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