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Missions

Deep Impact

As explained by the Ball Aerospace website, "Deep Impact was the eighth mission in NASA's Discovery Program and the first mission to attempt impact with a comet nucleus to probe beneath its surface. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. designed and built the cutting-edge, dual-spacecraft system and the instruments that captured the collision. Impact with comet Tempel 1 occurred on July 4, 2005, and gave scientists an unprecedented view of the characteristics of comets and pristine materials inside them."

For more information, please visit:
http://www.ballaerospace.com/page.jsp?page=60
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(space_mission)

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