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		NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will fire a projectile into the heart of Comet Tempel 1 to expose materials frozen inside the rocky snowball since the solar system formed four billion years ago. Mission overview Info on comets The science objectives Spacecraft fact sheet

Hubble sees the impact
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: July 4, 2005

These pictures of comet Tempel 1 were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They show the comet before and after it ran over NASA's Deep Impact probe. Credit: NASA/STScI

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