Blink animation of Hartley 2's jets

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Two images from Deep Impact's Medium Resolution Imager taken just seconds apart near the spacecraft's November 4, 2010 flyby of Hartley 2 blink back and forth, which reveals the three-dimensional depth of Hartley 2's jets and the cloud of particles that accompanies it.

NASA / JPL / UMD / Brown University

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