The technical goals of the experiment were first to obtain high-quality images of the cometary nucleus in four colors with two polarizations and secondarily to obtain images of the cometary coma in a variety of narrow bandpasses. The primary scientific goal to be addressed with these images was to determine the basic properties of the nucleus including the size and shape, the morphology and topography of the surface, the photometric properties of the surface, the rotational state, the degree of heterogeneity in the outgassing, and the energy balance at the surface. The secondary scientific goal was to study the properties of the inner coma including the production and evolution of gas and dust, the scales of the relevant physical processe... ...Show More
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