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Chapter
Images
Chapter 10, Figure 10

Figure
10.10
Photograph
made by the Giotto spacecraft of the nucleus of Halley's comet. The spacecraft
was approximately 1000 kilometers (about 620 miles) from the nucleus—deep
inside Halley's coma of gas—during the time this picture was made. (Copyright
1986, Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy; courtesy Harold Reitsema, Ball Aerospace.)