@MarsOribiter: Watched Mars Comet whizzing past, I'm safe and sound
October 20, 2014 14:30
ISRO's Mars Orbiter @MarsOrbiter tweets: Phew! Experience of a lifetime. Watched the #MarsComet #SidingSpring whizzing past the planet. I'm in my orbit, safe and sound.
In a once-in-a-million-years encounter, a comet, the size of a small mountain, flew past Mars on Sunday.
Comet Siding Spring passed just 140,000 km from Mars, less than half the distance between Earth and the moon and 10 times closer than any known comet has passed by Earth, National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
The comet is named after the Australian observatory that discovered it last year. Before the comet passed, it could be seen in space racing toward red planet, trailed by a cloud of debris.
In a once-in-a-million-years encounter, a comet, the size of a small mountain, flew past Mars on Sunday.
Comet Siding Spring passed just 140,000 km from Mars, less than half the distance between Earth and the moon and 10 times closer than any known comet has passed by Earth, National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
The comet is named after the Australian observatory that discovered it last year. Before the comet passed, it could be seen in space racing toward red planet, trailed by a cloud of debris.
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