Sentences with phrase «deep impact mission»

Stardust spacecraft visited Comet Tempel 1 in February 2011 where it viewed the impact crater from the Deep Impact mission of 2005.

Unlike a catastrophic failure, such as Mars Polar Lander in 1999, or a euphoric success, such as the spectacular 2005 collision of the Deep Impact mission with Comet Tempel 1, the non-detection seemed to leave officials unsure of how to react.

In a paper published in the current Science, researchers describe the results of the recent Deep Impact mission.

The Centaur crashed into the moon at about 2.5 kilometers per second, roughly one quarter the speed of the impactor that struck Comet Tempel 1 in 2005 as part of NASA's Deep Impact mission.

He was part of the Deep Impact Mission last year that blasted a rocket into a comet, and he hangs out at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range in California blasting things to smithereens.

Typically, researchers could observe only the surface of such alien bodies but not the interior; NASA's 2005 Deep Impact mission actually smashed a comet to study its composition.

The research is part of the Measurements of 11 Asteroids and Comets Using Herschel (MACH - 11) program, which used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA's previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - Rex).

In particular, the Deep Impact mission blasted a crater in the comet Tempel 1 so astronomers could study the makeup of the debris, providing a «Rosetta stone» for interpreting the composition of material around stars, says Lisse, who led the Deep Impact analysis.

Although researchers have examined only a small fraction of the material from the Deep Impact mission, they are beginning to reach some preliminary conclusions.

Water ice is present on the surface of Comet Tempel 1, suggest observations from NASA's Deep Impact mission.

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«Deep Impact is a boy mission.

Deep Impact Original Mission: The $ 333 million probe, launched in 2005 to shoot a copper slug into the heart of comet Tempel 1, revealed organic molecules and water ice.

Second Life: Just months after the craft dropped its payload to Earth in 2006, remotely fired its thrusters to change its course for a new mission, called Stardust - NExT, to photograph the crater created by Deep Impact.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions and the Indian probe Chandrayaan - 1 last year reported detecting a water film only a few molecules thick over large parts of the lunar surface.

NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini missions, along with India's lunar probe Chandrayaan - 1, examined how the sun's infrared rays reflect off the moon and detected the telltale fingerprints of water molecules.

Astronaut sampling and potential commercial activities could indicate the value of C - type asteroids for commercial mining purposes, which in turn could have significant impacts on how deep space missions are designed in the future.

This is nicknamed LCROSS, or Lunar CROSS, and this is a mission that's intending to do something very similar to what we did for Deep Impact, but this time we're going for the moon.

«Previous observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Swift Gamma - Ray Burst Mission and Deep Impact spacecraft gave us only upper limits for any gas emission from ISON.

Today (2008), after the Deep Impact space mission to comet Tempel 1, the best estimate for the amount of water on a comet is 38 % by mass.