Herschel PACS and SPIRE Observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2

The ESA Herschel Space Observatory [8] used its full complement of state-of-the-art instruments to observe the far-infrared and submillimetre spectrum and to image the thermal dust radiation of the Jupiter family comet 103P/Hartley 2 in the 70-672 μm spectral range. The observations were carried out in the period 24 October to 17 November 2010, as part of the Herschel Guaranteed Time Key program "Water and related chemistry in the Solar System" (HssO) [6]. We present here observations of H2O lines and of the dust coma made with the Photodetector Array and Camera (PACS) [9] and the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) [5].