STARDUST Flying by Comet P/Wild-2

On Jan 2 the STARDUST Team at Jet Propulsion Lab captured these images of the Comet Wild-2 nucleus at 100 Km. from the comet. STARDUST mission began on February 1999 and will be returning sample debris from the comet to the earth in 2006, after flying by the comet's tail at 13,600 mph.