NASA's Polar spacecraft shows small comets hitting Earth

NASA's Polar scientific satellite, launched late because of quality- control concerns at manufacturer Lockheed Martin Astro Space, has vindicated itself with spectacular images of what scientists believe to be small comets breaking up at high altitude in Earth's atmosphere, possibly confirming an...

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