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Deep Impact Comet Mission Producing Surprises
SigurRosFan
post Sep 7 2005, 12:19 AM
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http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/06deepimpact/

The article shows a image with the impact site:

"This composite image was built up from scaling all images from Deep Impact to 5 meters/pixel, and aligning images to fixed points. Each image at closer range, replaced equivalent locations observed at a greater distance. The impact site has the highest resolution because images were acquired until about 4 sec from impact or a few meters from the surface. Arrows A and B point to large, smooth regions. The impact site is indicated by the third large arrow. Small arrows highlight a scarp that is bright due to illumination angle, which shows the smooth area to be elevated above the extremely rough terrain. The scale bar is 1 km and the two arrows above the nucleus point to the sun and the rotational axis of the nucleus. Celestial north is near the rotational pole.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UMd"


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