Spacecraft captures dozens of images of comet's nucleus

Monday, September 24, 2001

LOS ANGELES -- A NASA spacecraft captured dozens of images of a comet during a weekend flyby, providing scientists only the second glimpse ever of the core of one of the glowing bodies of dust and ice.

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