Comet Tempel 1 Revisited Space Wallpaper

Comet Tempel 1 desktop wallpaper photo from NASA's Stardust spacecraft flyby on Feb. 14, 2011.

NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell)

NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011 for this cool space wallpaper. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005.

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