NASA’s Deep Impact photographs Tempel 1

NASA’s Deep Impact photographs Tempel 1

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has for the first time managed to take photographs of the comet Tempel 1. They used their spacecraft named Deep Impact for this accomplishment. The actual mission for the Deep Target is to smash a hole in the big ball of dirty ice and rock.

The event took place on the 25th of last month from a distance of 39.7 million miles from planet earth. The photos were however released this week by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the Deep Impact project is handled.

From today, the spacecraft would be sending daily observations reports of the comet from the outer space. The final encounter is planned for July 4 and the mission people would be making appropriate plans for the target trajectory using the feedback from the spacecraft.

NASA’s Deep Impact is carrying with it an impactor. It would be released on the path of the Tempel 1 comet leading to the high-speed collision. This is expected to make a hole, which can be possible as big as a football stadium. In the later stages, scientists would be making use of this hole to study the internal material of the comet.