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Cover image for book Deep Impact Mission: Looking Beneath the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

Deep Impact Mission: Looking Beneath the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

By:C.T. Russell
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781402035999
eText ISBN:9781402041631
Edition:1
Copyright:2005
Format:Page Fidelity

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Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavated material with its imagers and spectrometers. The book describes the mission, its objectives, expected results, payload, and data products in articles written by those most closely involved. This mission has the potential of revolutionizing our understanding of the cometary nucleus.