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Mars Express - Siding Spring flyby
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Description
Europe’s Mars orbiter and its scientific instruments had a frontrow seat when Comet Siding Spring grazed the Red Planet, skimming past at a little more than a third of the Moon’s distance from Earth.
Siding Spring, discovered in January 2013, is less than a kilometre across and passed Mars at 56 km/s, closing to within 139 500 km at 18:27 GMT (20:27 CEST) on 19 October 2014.
More about Mars Express:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express
http://blogs.esa.int/mex
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