Sentences with phrase «deep impact spacecraft»

* On 4 July 2005 the impactor from the Deep Impact spacecraft collided with Comet Tempel 1.

Since a 2005 visit by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, the short - period comet has completed more than one complete orbit around the Sun and approached the inner Solar System as close as the orbital distance of Mars.

«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.

Now a 27 - year - old doctoral student at the University of Washington, Cowan recently used NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft to look at Earth from an outside perspective.

In July NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft smashed an 800 - pound probe into comet Tempel 1, blasting a house - size hole and creating a spectacular shower of cosmic debris.

Old assumptions about comets are faltering as results emerge from data collected by the Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005, when the probe's impactor detached from the mother ship and crashed into the comet at 37,000 kilometres (23,000 miles) per hour.

Not exact matches

One spacecraft, called Deep Impact, will attempt to blast a huge hole in a comet; another is intended to land on a comet and scoop up parts of its surface.

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).

Answers may come from Deep Impact, a projectile that will slam into Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005, when a flyby spacecraft will study material beneath its surface.

Last week, lunar scientists made a splash when they announced that three spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 craft and NASA's Cassini and Deep Impact probes — have detected water's spectral signature over much of the moon's surface.

The Deep Impact team were not only delighted by the success of the impact, but also by the survival of the flyby spacecraft after it was spattered by debris from the comet's tail, orImpact team were not only delighted by the success of the impact, but also by the survival of the flyby spacecraft after it was spattered by debris from the comet's tail, orimpact, but also by the survival of the flyby spacecraft after it was spattered by debris from the comet's tail, or coma.

The LCROSS results will flesh out the surprise announcements in September that three other spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 and NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini — detected traces of water on the moon's surface by studying reflected infrared light from the sun.

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

This 1.25 - mile - or 2 - kilometer - long, «peanut - shaped» comet nucleus was the fifth visited by Human spacecraft, which in this case was NASA's re-purposed Deep Impact probe.

Measurement corroboration of the planet's mass as well the microlensing parallax were undertaken with the Deep Impact / EPOXI spacecraft, which was in a Heliocentric orbit (around our Sun, Sol).