Friday, August 5, 2011

Stereo Elenin

The real Elenin comet is seen crossing STEREO B HI2 imager in early August. No great tail is seen and it doesn't look that impressive. Though, the really impressive thing is that the NASA/STEREO guys put the efforts in to roll the space craft to make these images possible.
image data courtesy of NASA/STEREO/SECCHI, many thanks for it.