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Deep Impact (space mission) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deep Impact may refer to: Deep Impact (film), a 1998 film Deep Impact (space mission), a 2005 NASA space mission Deep Impact (horse), a Japanese racehorse "Deep Impact" (song), a song by Dragon Ash See also: Impact event Deep Impact Deep Impact Deep Impact 딥 임팩트...
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Deep Impact Mission Site + In-depth Coverage Contact the Deep Impact Team + Go to feedback Discovery Program Site + View site...
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• Gallery: Deep Impact mission At a cost of $330 million, Deep Impact is the eighth mission in NASA's Discovery Program, which supports low-budget science missions.
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The two space probes that make up NASA's Deep Impact mission are carrying the hopes of space agency and university researchers hoping to understand the inner secrets of comets.
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What are comets made of? Are they solid rocks, or fluffy snowballs? On July 4, 2005, the Deep Impact mission attempted to find out in a dramatic way.
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The Deep Impact spacecraft, launched in Jan 2004, arrived at comet Tempel 1 in Jul 2005 becoming the first mission to impact the surface of a comet. Although the primary Deep Impact mission is done, the spacecraft is in working order and is now on its way towards comet Hartley 2.
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de: Deep Impact ist eine NASA-Mission des Discovery-Programms zum Kometen Tempel 1. en: Deep Impact is a NASA space probe designed to study the composition of the interior of a comet's nucleus...
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In the context of NASA's Deep Impact space mission comet 9P/Tempel1 has been at the focus of an un-precendented worldwide long-term multi-wavelength observation campaign.
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NASA chose Deep Impact to be part of a special series called the Discovery Program on July 7, 1999. In May 2001, Deep Impact was given the "go" from NASA to start with mission development. The Deep Impact mission is simple; blast a hole in Comet Tempel 1 that is the size of a football field and is 7 stories deep!
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