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KSC-02pd1020

NASA / KSC · 2002-06-18 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft is enclosed by a container for its transfer to the launch pad. CONTOUR will provide the first detailed look into the heart of a comet -- the nucleus. Flying as close as 60 miles (100 kilometers) to at least two comets, the spacecraft will take the sharpest pictures yet of a nucleus while analyzing the gas and dust that surround these rocky, icy building blocks of the solar system.

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Credit lineKSC-02pd1020. NASA/KSC, 2002-06-18. Public domain. ID: KSC-02pd1020.
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