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Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Comet 103P/Hartley 2 from Deep Impact, in color

Comet 103P/Hartley 2 from Deep Impact, in color
Comet 103P/Hartley 2 from Deep Impact, in color Best color image of comet 103P/Hartley 2 taken with Deep Impact's High Resolution Imager on 4 November 2010. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UMD / Daniel Macháček

It's made from three images taken 4.11.2010 between 13:49:45 and 13:50:00 UTC from distance between 7458 and 7218 km through IR (5002035), green (5002037) and blue (5002038) filters (Lindler et al 2012). Color is enhanced and spectrally extended beyond human vision.

Resolution is 14.5 m/pix.