Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Comet Hale-Bopp Outbound
Explanation:
Hale-Bopp [ http://encke.jpl.na…], the Comet of the Century [ http://www.halebopp…], is leaving the inner Solar System. Outbound at about 12 miles per second it is presently nearing the main asteroid [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] belt between Mars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and Jupiter [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This false-color image [ http://www.boulder.…] represents a recent view from low Earth orbit [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] showing the comet surrounded by its shrinking coma [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] against a background of stars. It was constructed from [ http://www.boulder.…] a fraction of the data taken aboard the Space Shuttle [ http://shuttle.nasa…] Discovery in August by a small innovative telescopic camera known as the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System [ http://www.boulder.…] or SWUIS. SWUIS (sounds like "swiss") images will be particularly interesting to astronomers who wish to continue to follow the Great Comet's [ http://galileo.ivv.…] interaction with the Solar Wind [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. The once bright Hale-Bopp [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] has faded below 4th magnitude [ http://liftoff.msfc…] but is still visible [ http://galileo.ivv.…] to Earthbound observers south of 35 degrees north latitude [ http://galileo.ivv.…].
Credit and Copyright:
STS-85 [ http://www.osf.hq.n…] Crew, SWUIS Team [ http://www.boulder.…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
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Mars
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Jupiter
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
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Earth
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Galileo
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Mars
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Jupiter
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comet
facet_what:
Comet Hale-Bopp
facet_what:
Hale-Bopp Comet
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Space Shuttle Orbiter
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap970910

Comet Hale-Bopp Outbound
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