What a difference five years makes. New portraits of Comet Tempel 1 reveal pitting, erosion and other surface features that weren’t there in July 2005, the last time the comet was photographed at close range.
ZOOM IN NASA’s Stardust spacecraft got a close-up view of Comet Tempel 1 during a flyby on February 14.
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