Five cast fresh close-ups of comet 103P/Hartley 2 accustomed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab amidst acclaim and acclaim at 8:02 Pacific time this morning.
The Deep Impact delving (now on a mission alleged EPOXI) anesthetized by comet Hartley 2 at 7:01 a.m. PDT, the fifth time in history that an aircraft has been abutting abundant to photograph the affection of a comet. Deep Impact bound its instruments and began demography pictures of the comet 18 hours afore abutting approach, back it was 496,000 afar away. So instead of aggravating to fly the aircraft directly, engineers switched Deep Impact to autopilot, or Automap, about 50 accounts afore abutting approach. Deep Impact is the aboriginal aircraft anytime to appointment two comets. Deep Impact again spent a year celebratory extra solar planets afore battlefront its thrusters and branch against Hartley 2.
Hartley was at JPL mission address back the images arrived.
Hartley 2 wasn’t absolutely NASA’s aboriginal best for the abutting comet encounter.
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