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Comet Tempel 1 nucleus seen by Deep impact spacecraft

author: Nasa/JPL/UMD/Novapix

reference: a-com08-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 17 cm

This composite image was built up from scaling all images to 5 meters/pixel, and aligning images to fixed points. Each image at closer range, replaced equivalent locations observed at a greater distance. The impact site has the highest resolution because images were acquired until about 4 sec from impact or a few meters from the surface. The nucleus is estimated to be about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) across and 7 (4.3 miles) kilometers tall

Keywords for this photo:

2005 - ASTRONOMY - COMET - DEEP IMPACT - EPOXI - NUCLEUS - TEMPEL 1 -