Spacecraft flew through ‘snowstorm’ on encounter with comet Hartley 2

Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 13:50 in Astronomy & Space

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- On its recent trip by comet Hartley 2, the Deep Impact spacecraft took the first pictures of, and flew through, a storm of fluffy particles of water ice being spewed out by...

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