Deep Impact Rockets Toward Comet
The Deep Impact spacecraft, designed to blast a stadium-sized crater into comet Tempel 1, is a million miles from Earth this week, beginning a commissioning phase that will use Earth's Moon and Jupiter to calibrate the vehicle's imaging and optical navigation systems. Meanwhile, nearly 1 billion mi...
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