Chuck Hards wrote:

Patrick, you're a tease. When are you going to buy that frame grabber? Then you could "steal" the shot right off the video! ;)

Actually I recently bought a grabber. Wish I'd thought to hook it up but then I bet the pictures NASA puts on the web site will be far better than something I could grab. You can see it on the web at http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram . More tease: NASA TV just showed a series of images of Wild-2 shot over the past few days. The first one showed the nucleus and coma and several surrounding stars. But as the spacecraft got closer the nucleus and coma got bigger while the stars started disappearing because the coma (which they were flying in to) was getting so big and so thick. The presenter noted that this was called "putting the spacecraft at risk". I'm trying to think what the nucleus looks like. Kind of like an old and wrinkled moth ball? :-) The hemisphere in the picture is much more spherical than I had expected. Better still, they say the data indicate they actually flew through a jet of just released material. Still no pictures on the web (16:27). :-( Patrick