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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets

Comet C/2013 A1 as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
The images above show — before and after filtering — comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, as captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.Image Credit: 
NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon.

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