This image shows the initial ejecta that resulted when NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with comet Tempel 1 at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time, July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4). It was taken by the spacecraft's high-resolution camera 13 seconds after impact. The image has been digitally processed to better show the comet's nucleus.
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Here's the before picture of Comet Tempel 1 six minutes before it ran over NASA's Deep Impact probe at 10:52 a.m. Pacific time, July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4). The picture was taken by the probe's impactor targeting sensor.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
Here's the before picture of the impactor spacecraft while it was being built at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo:
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Images from other observatories follow beneath the fold.
The Faulkes Telescope North can clearly see the expanding ejecta in the coma. Attached is an image obtained by dividing an R-band image obtained at 08:35 UT by one at 06:24 UT. Positive (bright) pixels show the enhancement in R-band brightness in the inner coma at 08:35 UT. Image size is 85x62 arcsec, the apparent enhancement has a maximum brightness 2.5 arcsec from the center of the comet.
Image Credit: A. Fitzimmons and the Maui Deep Impact Workshop students and educators.
This is a series of images taken at the CFHT (Canada France Hawaii Telescope) equiped with the Megacam camera, pre- and post-impact. The images are 10s exposure time and were taken through the r filter. North is up, East is left. The field of view is about 120 x 120 arcsec, which corresponds to about 15,000 km at the comet. The three images of the animations were taken respectively at 05:50:47 UT, 05:52:59 UT, 05:54:03 UT (one pre-impact and two post impact). The increase of brightness after impact (which occurred at 05:52:24 UT as seen from Earth) is obvious on the second and third images.
Image Credit: R. Cabanac (CFHT), J. Pittichova, Y. Fernandez, K. Meech (Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii), M.B. Laychak and P. Martin (CFHT)
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