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Composite Stardust
image of Comet Wild 2
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Stereo Image Pair of Comet Wild 2
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Red/Green Stereo Anaglyph of Comet Wild 2
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Stardust Image of Comet Wild 2
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Animation Sequence of Stardust Flyby Images of Comet Wild 2
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Stardust Image of Comet Wild 2
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False color STARDUST image of Asteroid 5535 Annefrank just prior to closest approach |
Gray scale STARDUST image of Asteroid 5535 Annefrank just prior to closest approach |
Deep Space 1 image of Comet Borrelly taken on September 22, 2001 |
Another Deep Space 1 image of Comet Borrelly taken on September 22, 2001 |
Photo of of Comet Halley taken by the Giotto spacecraft in 1986 |
STARDUST image of the Moon taken 17 hours after Earth closest approach. |
Photo of STARDUST spacecraft during Earth flyby taken by Gordon Garradd from Loomberah, Australia.
Copyright Gordon Garradd |
STARDUST Vision Nearly Restored
After a few months of foggy vision, NASA's Stardust mission team has improved the spacecraft's navigation-camera resolution to nearly normal, just as Stardust is preparing to make a close flyby of the Earth on Monday. By heating the camera's optical path, the Stardust team was able to help its nearsighted spacecraft boil away contaminants that had been deposited on optical surfaces.
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Last Updated: November 26, 2003
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