ESA\’s Giotto spacecraft swept within 596 kilometers of Comet Halley\’s nucleus on March 13, 1986. Giotto was part of the Halley Armada, a group of five spacecraft that intercepted and studied the comet (Giotto, two Russian Vega probes and two Japanese probes, Sakigake and Suisei).
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