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NASA's Deep Impact Moved Into Cruise Phase

Posted by Zonk on from the commence-silent-running-mr.-tupalev dept.

karvind writes "NASA is reporting that the Deep Impact spacecraft has completed the commissioning phase of the mission and has moved into the cruise phase. Deep Impact mission planners have separated the spacecraft's flight operations into five mission phases. Cruise phase will continue until about 60 days before the encounter with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Deep Impact has been covered on slashdot before"

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  1. Re:Halfassed NASA Eggheads? by rapidweather · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ice and dust debris will be ejected from the crater revealing the material beneath.

    No one earth other than those with proper instrumentation will "feel" the effects of the impact.

    Here's a story I ran across that would be of interest to those keeping up with "Independence Day" effects on Earth.

    One day it's a giant asteroid that will snuff out all life on earth, another day it's a "super volcano", now this.

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    Rapidweather's Linux Screenshots.