Sunny Side of a Comet
 Figure 1: Temperature MapThis image composite shows comet Tempel 1 in visible (left) and infrared (right) light (figure 1). The infrared picture highlights the warm, or sunlit, side of the comet, where NASA's Deep Impact probe later hit. These data were acquired about six minutes before impact. The visible image was taken by the medium-resolution camera on the mission's flyby spacecraft, and the infrared data were acquired by the flyby craft's infrared spectrometer.
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Image details
ID#:
PIA02132
Date added:
2005-07-04
Target:
Tempel 1
Mission:
Deep Impact
Spacecraft:
Deep Impact
Instruments:
High Resolution Imager (HRI), Infrared Spectrometer
Size:
275 x 232 pixels (width x height)
Rating:
Views:
1,541
Full-Res TIFF:
PIA02132.tif (0.19 MB)
Full-Res JPG:
PIA02132.jpg (0 MB)
Image credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
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