Stardust Mothership Eyed for Recon at Deep Impact Site

Credit: NASA
In a dramatic bid to maximize the utilization of existing, low-cost planetary spacecraft, researchers want to divert the NASA/Lockheed Martin Stardust comet-sample-return mothership to intercept and image a second comet that was blasted open last July 4 by the Deep Impact mission. Stardust is about...

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