Deep Impact Mission: Looking Beneath the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Russell, Christopher T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the material excavated with its imagers and spectrometers. The book describes the mission, its objective...