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DEEP NEWS
Newsletter for the Deep Impact mission
Issue #22, May 2005
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With less than two months until the Deep Impact encounter with Comet Tempel 1,
we invite you to see why this will be one of the most daring experiments in
space that NASA has ever launched. How will this experiment work? What will you
see? What do scientists expect to find? For answers to these and other exciting
questions, read this month's newsletter below and take a look at our web sites
at:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov
http://deepimpact.umd.edu
PICTURE THIS! COMET TEMPEL 1 APPROACHES ENCOUNTER POINT
We are now able to see Comet Tempel 1 both from the Deep Impact spacecraft
instruments and large and small telescopes on Earth. Take a look at this
beautiful icy body in an image taken from Kitt Peak National Observatory in
Arizona.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/tempel1_color.html
MISSION UPDATE - REPORTS FROM OUR TEAM
Our mission update comes from a series of team reports to remind you that it
takes a lot of people in different areas to design and fly a mission.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/update-200505.html
CAN YOU GUESS THE SIZE OF THE CRATER?
If you think you can figure it out using our clues, take a look at the new
contest from the Planetary Society to guess the size of the crater we will make
when Comet Tempel 1 collides with the Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005.
http://www.planetary.org/deepimpact/
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL - MEET DAVID MARTIN, WEBMASTER - DEEP IMPACT
David had no clue that a love for computers would lead him to the job of
bringing a space mission's web site to the world - but it did! Meet David
Martin.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/bio-dmartin.html
COMET CRUNCH - THE DEEP IMPACT ICE CREAM!
Yes, it's true. The Deep Impact mission has its own ice cream. Introduced at
the campus' annual open house Maryland Day, and created by the University own
dairy, this ice cream is making an impact with students. What would an ice
cream created to remind us of a comet taste like and how did it come to be?
Read on.
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/community/icecream.html
EDUCATORS - A NEW ACTIVITY ON OBSERVATION FROM EARTH
Eyes on the Skies, an activity created by the Deep Impact mission and McREL
gives students an appreciation for challenge of collecting data and analyzing
it from both space and from Earth. Take a look at this activity:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/educ/EyesontheSkies_TG.pdf
To take a look at ways to observe Comet Tempel 1 as it approaches encounter
point, check our Amateur Observers' Program web site:
http://deepimpact.umd.edu/amateur/
As your students leave for the summer, make sure they will plan to watch this
incredible July event with their families by reviewing activities like Comet on
a Stick, Make a Comet and Eat It and others on our page especially for
educators:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/educ/index.html
FOR KIDS! CHECK OUT OUR GAMES AND PUZZLES
If you haven't looked at our Discovery Zone lately, now is the time to play all
the games and puzzles about comets and the Deep Impact mission:
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/disczone/index.html
QUESTIONS FROM YOU - THEY JUST KEEP ON COMING
We wanted to remind you of answers to some of our most common questions:
What are the science objectives?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/science/objectives.html
Will you knock the comet out of its orbit?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/faq3.html#q1
What will we be able to see from Earth and from where during encounter?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/faq5.html
Can I know more about the mission?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/factsheet-bw.pdf
Can I know even more about the mission?
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/science/objectives-rbrown.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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