POV: you’re flying towards Comet Halley ☄️

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On 14 March 1986, our Giotto spacecraft swept within 600 km of Comet Halley, obtaining the first close-up images of a comet. It revealed the first evidence of organic material in a comet and, still today, much of what we know about comets comes from the pioneering mission.

Launched on 2 July 1985 by Ariane 1, Giotto was ESA's first deep-space mission, part of an ambitious international effort to solve the mysteries surrounding Comet Halley. After a cruise of eight months, Giotto arrived at its destination and revealed the size and shape of Halley's nucleus. It found that the comet's surface is very dark (one of the blackest objects in the Solar System) and that it emitted jets of gas and dust.

Giotto's camera recorded many images that gave scientists a rare opportunity – the comet will not return to the inner Solar System again until 2061 – to study Halley intensively.

This video is a compilation of Giotto's historic images acquired by the Halley Multicolour Camera (HMC). It shows the comet as seen by the probe as it approached from about 60 000 km, coming to within 596 km.

???? European Space Agency (ESA)

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Deep Space
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ESA, European Space Agency, Halley Comet
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