This image shows an oxygen trail created when a small comet was disrupted as it approached our planet on September 15, 1996. This image was taken by the Polar spacecraft's Earth Camera in ultraviolet wavelengths. The oxygen trail has been superposed upon a "Face of the Earth" map of our planet.
Courtesy of Dr. Louis A. Frank, The University of Iowa and NASA

This image shows an oxygen trail created when a small comet was disrupted as it approached our planet on September 15, 1996. This image was taken by the Polar spacecraft's Earth Camera in ultraviolet wavelengths. The oxygen trail has been superposed upon a "Face of the Earth" map of our planet.
Courtesy of Dr. Louis A. Frank, The University of Iowa and NASA

This image shows an oxygen trail created when a small comet was disrupted as it approached our planet on September 15, 1996. This image was taken by the Polar spacecraft's Earth Camera in ultraviolet wavelengths. The oxygen trail has been superposed upon a "Face of the Earth" map of our planet.
Courtesy of Dr. Louis A. Frank, The University of Iowa and NASA

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