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Deep Impact Blasts Off For Comet Tempel 1
Wynken de Word writes "NASA's Deep Impact, a copper-fortified, comet-busting spacecraft, was launched Wednesday afternoon. 'NASA had a single second - at precisely eight seconds past 1:47 p.m. - to send Deep Impact on a 431-million-kilometre, six-month voyage to Comet Tempel 1.' The goal is to blast a big hole in the comet and check out what's preserved inside. Also see the Deep Impact site."
"Do comets and our own planet have something in common? This clever mission could answer the question once and for all. "
Very rarely is anything complex answered once and for all.
Don't moderate flamebait as Troll. Know the difference or you will be Meta-moderated.
Because science is not measured by how many people we send into space.
By how many we get back alive?
The fact that you do not understand something doesn't mean that you can say that it is useless or unworthy. Bye, Luca