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Images from the Stardust-Tempel1 rendevouz downloadet
Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:06
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Solar system - Comets

Comet Temepl1 flyby Deep impact crater

All images from the StardustNext rendevouz with comet Tempel1 this morning. The images also shows the location of the artificial impact crater from the Deep Impact mission in 2006

Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have begun receiving the first of 72 anticipated images of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.

The inset in this image, show the location of the artificial impact from 2006, when the Deep Impact mission send a brass-plate against the comet. The

Comet Temepl1 flyby Deep impact crater

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