In the still image comet siding spring is visible as a faint smear just above and to the right of the brightest streak.
Comet siding spring view from mars.
Edt october 19 2014.
Nasa s hubble space telescope has produced a unique composite image of comet siding spring as it made its never before seen close passage of a comet by mars.
This composite hubble space telescope image captures the positions of comet siding spring and mars in a never before seen close passage of a comet by the red planet which happened at 2 28 p m.
Edt hurtling at about 126 000 mph 56 kilometers per second.
Comet siding spring seen next to mars.
Several spacecraft from nasa europe and india were expected to track the comet s approach from their positions in orbit.
In the animation the comet moves across the image from right to left above the brightest streak.
19 comet c 2013 a1 also known as comet siding spring will pass within about 87 000 miles 139 500 kilometers of the red planet less than half the distance between earth and our moon and less than one tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of earth.
Several other nasa instruments on mars and in space also imaged comet siding spring s mars flyby.