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Giotto

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ESA · 1985

Halley's Comet, Grigg–Skjellerup

ESA's first deep-space mission, which passed within 600 km of the nucleus of Halley's Comet in 1986 and returned the first close-up images of a comet's core. It later flew past a second comet, Grigg–Skjellerup.