NASA’s EPOXI Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

NASA’s EPOXI Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
NASA’s EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is the fifth comet nucleus visited by a spacecraft.