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Monday, July 04, 2005
A Little Bit of Science History in the Making...
I had the NASA TV feed on for the last 3 hours, just to make sure I would be able to see the main event.
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Deep Impact smashed into the Tempel 1 comet exactly as planned, spraying space dust all over the place. As far as I can tell, JPL nailed it. The photos coming back from the Impactor as it closed in on the comet were amazing, and those was just the raw data. Then the impact photos from the flybycraft started coming in, and JPL's control center went bonkers.
The photos that will come in during the next few minutes will be run through filters for the best possible resolution. Then they'll all be examined again and again until scientists (and space junkies) learn all there is about this particular comet.
Congrats, JPL! You got another one right! Peanuts all around!
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Deep Impact smashed into the Tempel 1 comet exactly as planned, spraying space dust all over the place. As far as I can tell, JPL nailed it. The photos coming back from the Impactor as it closed in on the comet were amazing, and those was just the raw data. Then the impact photos from the flybycraft started coming in, and JPL's control center went bonkers.
The photos that will come in during the next few minutes will be run through filters for the best possible resolution. Then they'll all be examined again and again until scientists (and space junkies) learn all there is about this particular comet.
Congrats, JPL! You got another one right! Peanuts all around!
