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NASA's Deep Impact's Tempel 1 Mission Update. Images of impact taken with the medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit.
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Tempel 1 Mission Update

Images of impact taken with the medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit. At each point along the slit, a spectrum exists that contains information about the constituents in the spectrometer's field of view.

Image details

ID#:
PIA02144

Date added:
2005-11-28

Target:
Tempel 1

Mission:
Deep Impact

Spacecraft:
Deep Impact

Instruments:
Medium Resolution Imager (MRI)

Size:
2608 x 1950 pixels (width x height)

Rating:



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2,304

Full-Res TIFF:
PIA02144.tif (15.27 MB)

Full-Res JPG:
PIA02144.jpg (0.23 MB)

Image credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD