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Caption: Figure 6.
Images of comet 7P taken during a period of quiescence (left, taken at 2021 July 28 10:25:23 UTC) and the 2021 July 10 outburst (right, taken at 2021 July 10 02:29:58 UTC). The outburst ejecta is apparent as distortions in the observed surface brightness as compared to the ambient coma image. The bottom row shows the logarithmically scaled data with contours spaced every 0.5 mag arcsec−2. A color bar provides the surface brightness scale. Images are oriented with north up and east to the left. − ⊙ represents the antisolar direction, V is the heliocentric velocity direction, and a linear scale bar is shown. The blue arrows highlight two linear features as a result of the ejecta distribution that are meeting at a near-right angle in front of the nucleus.
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