Apr 27 2005
From The Space Library
NASA announced that on 25 April its Deep Impact spacecraft had successfully photographed comet Tempel 1, Deep Impact's target destination. The craft's Medium Resolution Instrument had captured the image on its first attempt. The image was the first of thousands that NASA planned for the craft to capture over the following 10 weeks. The images would aid Deep Impact's navigators, engineers, and scientists, as they plotted the craft's final trajectory toward its encounter with Tempel 1, scheduled for 4 July. (NASA, “NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Spots Its Quarry, Stalking Begins,” news release 05-108, 27 April 2005, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/apr/HQ_05108_Deep_Impact_Image.html (accessed 29 June 2009).)
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