Comet Borrelly's nucleus

by: Nasa/JPL/Novapix
Reference: a-com06-00002
Date: 2006-08-22

This was the final image of the nucleus of comet Borrelly, taken just 160 seconds before Deep Space1's closest approach to it. This image shows the 8-km (5-mile) long nucleus about 3417 kilometers (over 2,000 miles) away.

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