I'm ready for my closeup

“Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.” - Les Brown

On Nov 4th NASA's Deep Impact space probe visited the nucleus of   comet Hartley 2. This was the 5th time in history a probe has visited a comet.

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This photo was taken at a distance of 700 kilometres of a comet which is only 1.5 kilometres across. This is equivalent to photographing a person from over a half mile away. That quite a telephoto lens!