Deep Impact Scores Bull's-Eye on Comet Tempel 1 Using Autonomous Guidance

Deep Impact scientists suspect that comet 9P/Tempel 1 has a fluffy makeup that is held together more by gravity than by the cohesiveness of its materials, based on early data from the flyby and strike of the body that kicked up more material than most imagined. The flyby spacecraft and its...

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