[Mb-civic] Mission Accomplished: Probe Hits Comet - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Mission Accomplished: Probe Hits Comet

By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 4, 2005; 7:12 AM

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a flawless 
journey to oblivion early today, slamming into an onrushing comet to 
vaporize itself in an Independence Day blaze of glory.

Scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheered as 
spectacular images taken by a second "fly-by" spacecraft positioned 
nearby confirmed that the "impactor" had scored a perfect bull's-eye, 
smacking into comet Tempel 1 at its lower edge at 1:52 a.m. EDT, spewing 
dust and ice in a column of debris that lit up the heavens.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/04/AR2005070400267.html?nav=hcmodule
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