NASA yesterday said it has captured dozens of close-up images of a distant comet that show the frozen ball of rock and ice spewing jets of dust and gas into space.
The Stardust spacecraft took 72 images of the nucleus of comet Wild 2 on Friday during a flyby 242 million miles from Earth. . . . The spacecraft also collected dust and gas samples from the comet and is scheduled to jettison them to Earth in January 2006.
It’s not the lunar cities I was hoping for by now, but it’s something.