A Solar System Photo Gallery

A Solar System Photo Gallery
Comets

	Comet Halley is shown here in a composite of images of its nucleus taken by the Giotto probe on 14 March 1986 from 1,500 km away. Halley's Comet is 15 km by 7 km in size. The image shows gaseous jets from evaporating ices spewing from the surface of the nucleus. (Credit: ESA/Giotto)
	Comet Borrelly is seen here in an image obtained by the Deep Space 1 probe in 2001 from 3,417 km away. This shows the 8 km by 3 km nucleus of the comet. (Credit: NASA, JPL)
	Comet Wild 2 is seen in this image from the Stardust probe taken on 2 January 2004 from 500 km away. (Credit: STARDUST team, NASA, JPL)
	The nucleus of Comet Temple 1 is shown here in an image taken 4 July 2005 from 3,000 km away by the Deep Impact impactor probe, shortly before it struck the comet's surface. (Credit: NASA, JPL)
	Comet Hartley 2 is seen here in an image from 700 km away taken 4 November 2011 by the EPOXI spacecraft. The nucleus is 2 km by 0.7 km in size. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD)
	Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko is seen here in an image from 100 km away taken 11 August 2014 by the Rosetta spacecraft. The nucleus has two distinct lobes and is 4 km by 2 km in size. (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM)
	Comet P/2016 BA14 is shown in this radar image taken 22 March 2016 from the Goldstone radar from 3,600,000 km away. This comet nucleus is about 1 km across. (Credit: JPL, NASA)