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Deep Impact gets first look at Hartley 2
Spaceflight Now ^ | 11/4/2010 | Spaceflight Now Staff

Posted on 11/04/2010 12:26:06 PM PDT by cabojoe

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft flew 700 kilometers, or 435 miles, from comet Hartley 2 on Thursday morning. These five images were the first snapshots returned from the probe more than 13 million miles away from Earth.

All five images were captured with Deep Impact's medium-resolution camera between 1358 GMT and 1401 GMT.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; comet; comethartley2; deepimpact; hartley2; nasa
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Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

1 posted on 11/04/2010 12:26:08 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: cabojoe

Definitely Klingon...


2 posted on 11/04/2010 12:29:11 PM PDT by ken5050 (I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
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To: SunkenCiv

Glowing-Sweet-Potato-In-Space PING


3 posted on 11/04/2010 12:30:03 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ken5050

Shaped like one of my dog’s toys.


4 posted on 11/04/2010 12:31:03 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: cabojoe

Cool propulsion system! Warp drive?


5 posted on 11/04/2010 12:31:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: cabojoe

Awesome!


6 posted on 11/04/2010 12:31:47 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: brytlea

Kentucky Fried Chicken.......Extra crispy!!


7 posted on 11/04/2010 12:32:54 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: KevinDavis

Ping.


8 posted on 11/04/2010 12:34:13 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Big G drive.


9 posted on 11/04/2010 12:35:21 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
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To: ken5050
Get your eyes checked...it's definitely Romulan.
10 posted on 11/04/2010 12:38:34 PM PDT by JPG (Memo to GOP: DO NOT GO WOBBLY...NO COMPROMISE...REJECT SOCIALISM.)
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To: ken5050

The leg bone had to end up somewhere...

11 posted on 11/04/2010 12:41:24 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: cabojoe

Hubbel's Hi-res camera has an even finer resolution image...............

12 posted on 11/04/2010 12:43:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: cabojoe

Giant space turd ping!


13 posted on 11/04/2010 12:44:06 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 (The Tea Party will be heard Mr. Speaker!)
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To: cabojoe

That is super cool.

I blew the images up to get a good look and can’t really interpret what I see. The bulbous ends are quite rough and the center section relatively smoother as if worn down by rotational abrasion.

Then there is the lit up end. I think the tail precedes the comet, but when I see it I can’t make any sense out of that.


14 posted on 11/04/2010 12:47:53 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
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To: cabojoe

Way cool


15 posted on 11/04/2010 12:49:28 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: cabojoe
It's not just the peanut shape that's unexpected, but this thing is rapidly tumbling end-over-end as it speeds along at around 27K mph...
16 posted on 11/04/2010 12:54:07 PM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: cabojoe

The mission is the EPOXI mission.

It is a low cost mission that uses the already in-flight Deep Impact spacecraft


17 posted on 11/04/2010 12:54:23 PM PDT by kidd
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To: martin_fierro

Maybe we can send Meghan McCain to investigate..................


18 posted on 11/04/2010 12:56:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: ken5050

Capt. Kirk can take a shuttlecraft, see, and adjust it’s propulsion system so that it will blow itself up just before Mr. Scott transports him back to the bridge of the Enterprise. Then he (Kirk) guides the shuttlecraft into the object’s larger end. Problem solved.


19 posted on 11/04/2010 12:57:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: martin_fierro

It doesn’t look like a dirty snowball.


20 posted on 11/04/2010 12:58:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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