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Tracking "Snowballs"

Target Name:  Comet Hartley 2
Spacecraft:  Deep Impact (DIXI)
Instrument:  Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
Produced by:  NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/Brown
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Cross Reference:  PIA13626
Date Taken:  2010-11-04

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This movie shows the motion of some icy particles in the cloud around Hartley 2, as seen by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft. A star moving through the background is marked with red and moves in a particular direction and with a particular speed, while the icy particles move in random directions. The icy particles are marked in green, blue and light blue.

The images for the movie were obtained by the Medium-Resolution Imager on Nov. 4, 2010, the day the EPOXI mission spacecraft made its closest approach to the comet.

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