Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 - NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars - less than half the distance between Earth and our moon. The image on the left, captured March 11 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows comet C/2013 A1, also called Siding Spring, at a distance of 353 million miles from Earth. Hubble can't see Siding Spring's icy nucleus because of its di ... more

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