"For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, principal investigator for NASA's Stardust-NExT mission.Read more about the Stardust-NExT mission.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Second rendezvous with comet Tempel 1...
will occur on Monday, 14 February, about 5.5 years after the first encounter, in an effort to study how the Sun erodes such bodies.
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