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Deep Impact Spacecraft’s First Glimpse of Comet Hartley 2
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This first image of comet 103P/Hartley 2 was taken from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft 60 days prior to the spacecraft's flyby of the comet.
Seven successive one-minute exposures taken by the spacecraft's Medium Resolution Imager were combined to make this single image. The exposures were taken on Sept 5 beginning at about 6:30 a.m. PDT (9:30 a.m. EDT, 13:30 UTC). The comet was 60 million kilometers (37.2 million miles) from the spacecraft when the set of images were taken.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | 103P/Hartley | 9P/Tempel |
| System | Periodic Comets | |
| Target Type | Comet | |
| Mission | Deep Impact | |
| Instrument Host | Deep Impact | |
| Host Type | Impactor | |
| Instrument | Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI) | |
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Grayscale, Impact | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2010-09-08 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13374 | |
| Identifier | PIA13374 | |
