NASA Snaps Shot of Mars-Bound Comet

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 27, 2014 @11:48AM from the that's-a-close-one dept.

coondoggie (973519) writes "NASA today released images of a comet that will make a pass within 84,000 miles of Mars — less than half the distance between Earth and the moon. NASA said the Hubble Space Telescope captured the image of 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 minuscule size. The nucleus is surrounded by a glowing dust cloud that measures roughly 12,000 miles across, NASA said."

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Re:In The Grande Scheme of Things... by Charliemopps · 2014-03-27 12:20 · Score: 4, Interesting

It takes a lot of idiots blowing their money and Starbucks and Banana Republic to generate the kind of economy you need pull of things like the Hubble Telescope.