Note: this topic is from June 17, 2004. Just adding, not pinging.
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I want to see close-up pictures.
Uh-oh. Geological formations. I can hear the "comets and asteroids are the remnants of a destroyed planet" people rushing to the cameras.
It appears that comets are orders of magnitude more physically dynamic, and important for science, than we were taught in science courses years ago. And the return sample makes it appear that the operation was well considered.
When viewed stereoscopically, the comet is one rough looking piece of primodial space debri. The relief probably has been exaggerated by a factor of two or three to make details stand out better (a common trick of stereographers).
That IS weird and unexpected. There goes the dirty snowball theory.
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