Deep Impact’s Fireworks
NASA's Deep Impact mission kicked off Independence Day with some celestial fireworks, about 83 million miles from Earth. The mission's impactor spacecraft hit Comet Tempel 1 just before 2 a.m. EDT as a flyby spacecraft - and other telescopes in space and on Earth - watched.
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