SOHO Watches a Comet Fading Away (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

SOHO Watches a Comet Fading Away

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On September 30, 2010, water production on Comet Hartley 2 -- as represented by the hydrogen cloud surrounding the comet seen by SOHO -- jumped by a factor of two and half in a single day. (Comet and cloud size are not to scale.) Inset upper right: Comet Hartley 2 as viewed by EPOXI from 435 miles away on November 4, 2010.

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Credit: NASA/Steele Hill Inset Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

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