““There are many more spectacular images yet to be revealed,” said Michael A’Hearn, principal investigator of the Deep Impact mission at the University of Maryland, of this image during a July 4 press conference.

“The Deep Impact mission team is now on the sidelines with the rest of the world, anxiously awaiting the science team’s assessment of the data, Henderson said. “The science team spent the night here analyzing data, and they seem to be ecstatic with the results…and they have only seen 10 percent of the data so far.”