An artist's depiction of the close pass of comet C/2013 A1 over Mars.


An artist's depiction of the close pass of comet C/2013 A1 over the Martian landscape. Also known as comet Siding Spring which is the Australian observatory that discovered the object, it is scheduled to pass by Mars in October of 2014. Rover image courtesy of NASA.


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Photo credit: © Marc Ward/Stocktrek Images / Alamy / Afripics
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