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Friday 17 October 2014

NASA readies its fleet of scientific assets for a once-in-a-life-time photoshoot

The assets that will be used to observe Siding Spring as it skims past Mars (Image: NASA)


NASA is busy readying its considerable arsenal of scientific instruments, spacecraft and rovers for a close encounter with comet C/2013 A1 on Sunday, Oct 19. The comet's closest approach with a planetary body will be with Mars, at which point it will miss the Red Planet by only 87,000 miles (140,013 km), less than half the distance between Earth and our moon, traveling at speeds of up to 126,000 mph (202,777 km/h). .. Continue Reading NASA readies its fleet of scientific assets for a once-in-a-life-time photoshoot



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