NASA’s Deep Impact (EPOXI) probe is closing in on Comet Hartley 2 for a daring flyby today (Nov. 4th).
The small but active comet is full of surprises, with spinning jets, geysers of cyanide gas, and a strangely pickle-shaped core. Mission scientists expect to reveal first images from the flyby during a press conference on Thursday afternoon, around 4 pm EDT.
Tune into NASA TV to follow events live, and meanwhile read this story for a preview.
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EPOXI Mission Website.
Images of Hartley 2 from the Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft. Exploration of Comets – This interactive video 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. |
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I remember back in the late 60s when I was a teenager, that the morning after the first moon landing returned to earth; the news/satireist Herb Cane of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that many of the objects which had been left on the moon were found in the morning lined up on the lawn of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. I was never sure if it was a joke or not.