PIA13859: Tempel 1, as Seen by Two Spacecraft
 Target Name:  Tempel 1
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  StardustNExT
 Spacecraft:  Deep Impact
Stardust
 Instrument:  Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
 Product Size:  1489 x 1117 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
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These two images show the different views of comet Tempel 1 seen by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft (left) and NASA's Stardust spacecraft (right). Two craters, about 300 meters (1,000 feet) in diameter, help scientists locate the area hit by the impactor released by Deep Impact in July 2005. The dashed lines correlate the features.

Stardust approached the comet from a different angle on Feb. 14, 2011.

Stardust-NExT is a low-cost mission that will expand the investigation of comet Tempel 1 initiated by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Stardust-NExT for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Joe Veverka of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is the mission's principal investigator. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft and manages day-to-day mission operations.

For more information about Stardust-NExT, please visit http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2011-02-16