'Snow' Around Comet (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

'Snow' Around Comet

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This is one of the first images from spacecraft's large telescope. the HRI. It shows the cloud of water ice particles around the nucleus of the comet.

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NASA/UMD/JPL

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