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Four Views of Comet Tempel 1
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
This image mosaic shows four different views of comet Tempel 1 as seen by NASA's Stardust spacecraft as it flew by on Feb. 14, 2011. The images progress in time beginning at upper left, moving to upper right, then proceeding from lower left to lower right.
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Comet Tempel 1 as Seen by NASA's Stardust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005.
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New Territory on Tempel 1
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
This image obtained by NASA's Stardust spacecraft shows a side of the nucleus of comet Tempel 1 that has never been seen before. In the image, three terraces of different elevations are visible, with dark, banded scarps, or slopes, separating them.
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Deep Impact's Effect on Tempel 1
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland
This pair of images shows a before-and-after comparison of the area on comet Tempel 1 targeted by an impactor from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005.
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Changes to Smooth Terrain (Unannotated)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland/Cornell
This image layout depicts changes in the surface of comet Tempel 1, observed first by NASA's Deep Impact Mission in 2005 (top right) and again by NASA's Stardust-NExT mission on Feb. 14, 2011 (bottom right).
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Changes to Smooth Terrain (Annotated)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland/Cornell
This image layout depicts changes in the surface of comet Tempel 1, observed first by NASA's Deep Impact Mission in 2005 (top right) and again by NASA's Stardust-NExT mission on Feb. 14, 2011 (bottom right).
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Tempel 1 Impact Site
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland/Cornell
This pair of images shows the before-and-after comparison of the part of comet Tempel 1 that was hit by the impactor from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.
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Stardust-NExT Spacecraft Meets Comet Tempel 1
Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/LMSS
Comet Tempel 1 has been the target of two NASA missions. Here, an artist envisions what the approach of NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft may look like when it arrives at Comet Tempel 1 on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14) in 2011.
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Comet Tempel 1: First Flyby Photo from Stardust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission transmitted the first image it took during its approach to comet Tempel 1 at 8:35 p.m. PST (11:35 p.m. EST) on Feb. 14, 2011, from a distance of approximately 2,462 kilometers (1,530 miles). The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005.
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Be My Valentine
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The first image of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft is a composite made from observations on Jan. 18 and 19, 2011. The panel on the right highlights the location of comet Tempel 1 in the frame. On Valentine's Day (Feb. 14 in U.S. time zones), Stardust will fly within about 200 kilometers (124 miles) of the comet's nucleus.
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The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
This image shows comet Tempel 1 approximately 5 minutes before Deep Impact's probe smashed into its surface. It was taken by the probe's impactor targeting sensor.
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Close to You
Credit: NASA/NOAO/AURA/NSF
The Kitt Peak National Observatory's 2.1-meter telescope observed comet Tempel 1 on April 11, 2005, when the comet was near its closest approach to the Earth.
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Kapow! Comet Tempel 1 Gets Smacked
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
This image of Comet Tempel 1 was taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft on July 4, 2005, 67 seconds after a probe crashed into the comet.
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Deep Insight: Comet Tempel 1's Dusty Secrets
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 about 50 minutes after Deep Impact's probe smashed into its surface. The colors represent reflected sunlight, with white indicating the brightest materials and black showing the faintest. This brightness is a measure of reflected sunlight. The Sun is located to the right, out of the picture. The blue speck in the upper left corner is a star.
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Deep Impact's Comet Tempel 1 Visit
Credit: Ball Aerospace.
Deep Impact gave scientists their first close-up look at the interior of a comet when it hit. Here, an artist illustrates the encounter.
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Icy Bits From Comet Tempel 1
This photo from NASA's Deep Impact probe shows part of Comet Hartley 2’s nucleus, with the sun illuminating it from the right. Also visible is a distinct cloud of individual icy particles. The picture was taken on Nov. 4, 2010, the day the spacecraft made its closest approach to the comet.
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Comet Tempel 1 Unleashes Massive Outburst
Credit: NASA/ESA/P. Feldman/H. Weaver.
A jet of dust spews jet extends about 2,200 kilometers from Comet Tempel 1 in this earlier image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on June 14, 2005.
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Where the Sun Does Shine
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
This image composite shows comet Tempel 1 in visible (left) and infrared (right) light (figure 1). The infrared picture highlights the warm, or sunlit, side of the comet, where NASA's Deep Impact probe later hit. These data were acquired about six minutes before impact.
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Deep Impact Photographs Comet Tempel 1
Credit: NASA/JPL/UMD
Deep Impact's first image of comet Tempel 1, taken on April 25, 2005. Image
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Comet Tempel 1 is All Fluff
A composite of images taken by the impactor targeting sensor on the spacecraft that collided with comet Tempel 1. The arrows point out two areas where the surface is smooth instead of spotted with depressions. Image © Science
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Close-up of Comet Tempel 1 Surface
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
This Comet Tempel 1 photo taken by NASA's Deep Impact impactor probe reveals a close look at the comet just before impact on July 4, 2005 (Eastern Time).
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Comet Tempel 1 Temperature Map
Credit: NASA/JPL/UMD
This temperature map of Comet Tempel 1's nucleus shows the icy object at different spatial resolutions. The context image (in black and white) is a HRIVIS image taken just before impact. The color bar in the middle gives temperature in Kelvins. The sun is to the right in all images.
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Comet Tempel 1 Collision Sequence
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
This sequence of Comet Tempel 1 photos shows the Deep Impact mission crash using the flyby spacecraft's medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit. At each point along the slit, a spectrum exists that contains information about the constituents in the spectrometer's field of view. Deep Impact hit Tempel 1 with an impactor probe on July 4, 2005 (Eastern Time)
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X-Ray of a Comet
Credit: This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory on June 30, 2005, Universal Time. The comet was bright and condensed. The X-rays observed from comets are caused by an interaction between highly charged oxygen in the solar
This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 as seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory on June 30, 2005, Universal Time. The comet was bright and condensed. The X-rays observed from comets are caused by an interaction between highly charged oxygen in the solar wind and neutral gases from the comet.
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Comet Tempel 1: Stardust Probe's First Views
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:37 p.m. PST on Feb 14, 2011,
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Comet Tempel 1: Stardust Probe's First Views
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:38 p.m. PST on Feb 14, 2011.
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Comet Tempel 1: Stardust Probe's First Views
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST on Feb 14, 2011.
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Comet Tempel 1: Stardust Probe's First Views
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST on Feb 14, 2011. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005.
