Comet bomber flyby pics show spaceball belching ancient dry ice
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Evaluating the cost of a DDoS attack  Excellent snaps sent back
by a NASA probe craft during a rendezvous with the comet Hartley
2 have revealed that the spectacular "jets" of glowing gas which
make it so spectacular result from dry ice subliming in its
interior.  The nucleus of comet Hartley 2 belching dry ice,
imaged by the EPOXI spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD  A
little bit of dry ice fabulousness  NASA's EPOXI* mission has
seen the former Deep Impact spacecraft - which successfully
bombed the comet Tempel 1 with an impact missile in 2005,
gleaning valuable data while so doing - subsequently reassigned
to mount a flyby past Hartley 2. During the past five years the
probe has carried out cunning gravity-assist flybys past Earth
in order to intercept the hurtling comet, and a week ago it
zoomed to just 700km from the freezing spaceball. This time,
however, there was no impact probe