Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Stardust-NExt

I am reading about NASA's Stardust-NExt mission on NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab's website http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/
On 4 July 2005, the Deep Impact probe smashed into the comet forming an impact crater, according to this website.
I am reading this article, Comet Temple 1 picture taken by NASA Stardust - Pics, at www.examiner.com
On 14 February 2011, the spacecraft flew within 110 miles of the Temple 1 comet and took photographs of the comet, including Deep Impact's impact crater. The comet was 200 million miles from Earth at the time, according to this article.


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