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PIA02144: Tempel 1 Mission Update
NASA's Deep Impact's Tempel 1 Mission Update. Images of impact taken with the medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit.
 Target Name:  Tempel 1
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Deep Impact 
 Spacecraft:  Deep Impact
 Instrument:  Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI) 
 Product Size:  2608 x 1950 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Maryland 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02144.tif (15.27 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02144.jpg (225.4 kB)  

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Images of impact taken with the 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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Image Addition Date:
2005-11-28