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Deep Sky Feasibility Demonstration With the successful completion of the Deep Impact and EPOXI missions, the Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft has proven that it can get great data on comets. What else could it do? EPOXI Spacecraft Team Chief Steve Wissler needed to give his team some real life practice by imaging some targets that are definitely not comets!
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- Science & Children
- The EPOXI EPO team had an article "Inquiry into the Heart of a Comet" published in the NSTA's Feb 2011 Science & Children magazine.
- Eyes on the Solar System
- A team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using computer gaming technology to immerse the general public and mission personnel in our solar system and beyond. "Eyes on the Solar System," is a cross-platform, realtime, 3D-interactive application that runs inside a Web browser.
GENERAL FEATURES
- Mission Status
- Updates about how the mission is going. Latest report: 2011-Nov-01
- EPOXI Team
- Visit with the many scientists, engineers, students, outreach specialists and others who are making the EPOXI projects a success!
NEWS FEATURES
- 2010.11.18 - NASA Spacecraft Sees Cosmic Snow Storm During Comet Encounter
- The EPOXI mission's recent encounter with comet Hartley 2 provided the first images clear enough for scientists to link jets of dust and gas with specific surface features. NASA and other scientists have begun to analyze the images.
- 2010.11.15 - NASA Announces Comet Encounter News Conference
- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 18, to discuss new scientific findings from the recent EPOXI mission spacecraft encounter with comet Hartley 2.
- 2010.11.10 - Primordial Dry Ice Fuels Comet Jets
- One of the biggest comet findings coming out of the amazing images and data taken by the University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission as it zipped past comet Hartley 2 last week is that dry ice is the 'jet' fuel for this comet and perhaps many others.
- 2010.11.05 - Flight of the Comet
- This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. During the encounter, the spacecraft and comet whisked past each other at a speed of 12.3 kilometers per second (27,560 miles per hour).
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HARTLEY 2 IMAGES
- S/C Images
- Images from the Deep Impact spacecraft.
- Professional
- Images from professional ground- and space-based observatories.
- Amateurs
- Images, sketches, etc from amateurs and private observatories.
RELATED SITES
- Deep Impact
- Live pages at UM.
- PlanetQuest
- Exoplanet Exploration.
- EPOXI
- NASA Portal site.
RELATED MULTIMEDIA
- Exploration of Comets
- This interactive explores comets -- their anatomy, life cycle, and provides the specifications of some comets that have been and will be explored by NASA missions.
- Deep Impact Science Results
- Deep Impact science team members have been analysing the results since 2005. This animation summarizes some of the major results.
- Four Ways to Find a Planet
- How do you find something if you can't see it? Here are some of the techniques used by scientists.