Mars Spacecraft Survive Comet; Next Up, Science

The comet Siding Spring 2013 whizzed past Mars on Oct. 19, leaving the constellation of scientific spacecraft orbiting the planet undamaged and beginning to transmit the scientific take from their unprecedented close encounter with an Oort Cloud object. Control centers in Europe, India and the U.S...

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