SOHO discovers its 1,500th comet

(European Space Agency) The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1,500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together.

Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a solar physics mission.


 

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