NASA Spacecraft Closes in on Comet Tempel 1

Source - NASA Science News for Feb. 9, 2011

NASA is about to discover how solar heat devours a comet as the Stardust-NExT probe closes in for a Valentine's Day encounter with Tempel 1.

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