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DEEP NEWS
Newsletter for the Deep Impact mission
Issue #20, March 2005
The Deep Impact twin spacecraft is entering its third month in space. The
project team is hard at work implementing their carefully planned mission. The
spacecraft launched on January 12th from Cape Canaveral and is on its way to
its July 4th impact with Tempel 1. What's been happening with Deep Impact? Read
below to find out. If you aren't familiar with the Deep Impact mission, take a
look at:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov
http://deepimpact.umd.edu
PICTURE THIS! - LAUNCHED AND FLYING
The Deep Impact spacecraft launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Florida on
January 12th at 1:47 PM EST. If you missed seeing it in person, here is your
chance to view it.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/mov-launch.html
(QuickTime Format)
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/mpeg-launch.html
(MPEG Format)
AND PICTURE THIS! - BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON
The team continues testing the instruments by taking images on both the flyby
and impactor spacecraft. Comet Tempel 1 is still a long way off but the
sightseeing along the way is wonderful. Take a look at images taken of the moon
and Jupiter.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/commissioning.html
MISSION UPDATE - WHAT'S HAPPENING
What's the latest with the Deep Impact mission? Keyur Patel gives an update;
take a look.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/update-200503.html
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL - MEET ELIZABETH WARNER
Elizabeth has several jobs on the Deep Impact mission. From the University of
Maryland, she works with the amateur astronomer programs for Deep Impact and
this month, she sees the release of a web site she designed to help others
learn how to track Comet Tempel 1 through a telescope. Not only that, but she
also works on other outreach programs for the mission and is co-curator of the
Deep Impact web site. Meet Elizabeth Warner.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/bio-ewarner.html
CAN YOU FIND COMET TEMPEL 1?
Whether you are a seasoned astronomer or a person looking to use that telescope
that Aunt Hattie gave you that's currently gathering dust bunnies under your
bed, the Deep Impact Amateur Astronomer Program could be for you. Take a look
and get ready to search the skies in July 2005.
http://deepimpact.umd.edu/amateur
DEEP IMPACT PLANETARIUM SHOW
Have you seen the Deep Impact Planetarium Show created by Fiske Planetarium? It
might be coming to your local planetarium. Contact them and see if it is part
of their schedule.
http://www.colorado.edu/fiske/
FOR EDUCATORS - NEW FOR YOU
We didn't see you at the January educator workshop at Kennedy Space Center so
we wanted to show you some of the exciting material 27 teachers from across the
country received.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/educ/storysong.html
BRAIN TWISTER - DESIGN THE DEEP IMPACT MISSION
You have been asked to look at the science objectives for the Deep Impact
mission and to design the spacecraft necessary to meet those objectives. The
science objectives are to travel to a comet nucleus and make a deep crater in
it. You are trying to determine the structure and composition of a comet
nucleus and to find for the first time what lies beneath its surface.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/braintwist-mission6a.html
DID YOU SEE OUR PAST DEEP NEWS ISSUES?
Visit http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/newsletter/archive.html
to catch up on exciting past news from the Deep Impact mission.
Deep Impact is a Discovery mission. For more information on the Discovery
Program, visit:
http://discovery.nasa.gov/
The Deep Impact mission is a partnership among the University of Maryland
(UMD), the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
and Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp (BATC). Deep Impact is a NASA Discovery
mission, eighth in a series of low-cost, highly focused space science
investigations. See http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov
or our mirror site at http://deepimpact.umd.edu.
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