Comet heading towards Mars, computer artwork. It is thought that comet 2013-A1, or Siding Spring, will pass 37,000 kilometres from Mars in October 201

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Comet heading towards Mars, computer artwork. It is thought that comet 2013-A1, or Siding Spring, will pass 37,000 kilometres from Mars in October 2014, and there is a remote chance it will impact the surface. If this were to happen, Mars' climate and atmosphere would change for several hundred years.

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Photo credit: © DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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