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Comet ISON: "NASA #39;s Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON" 2013 NASA JPL
more at scitech.quickfound.net Public domain film from NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Silent. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov PASADENA, Calif. - NASA #39;s Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). The images were taken by the spacecraft #39;s Medium-Resolution Imager over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, 2013, from a distance of 493 million miles (793 million kilometers). Many scientists anticipate a bright future for comet ISON; the spaceborne conglomeration of dust and ice may put on quite a show as it passes through the inner solar system this fall. "This is the fourth comet on which we have performed science observations and the farthest point from Earth from which we #39;ve tried to transmit data on a comet," said Tim Larson, project manager for the Deep Impact spacecraft at NASA #39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The distance limits our bandwidth, so it #39;s a little like communicating through a modem after being used to DSL. But we #39;re going to coordinate our science collection and playback so we maximize our return on this potentially spectacular comet." Deep Impact has executed close flybys of two comets - Tempel 1 and Hartley 2 - and performed scientific observations on two more - comet Garradd and now ISON. The ISON imaging campaign is expected to yield infrared data, and light curves (which are used in defining the comet #39;s rotation rate) in addition to visible-light images. A movie of comet ISON was generated from initial data ...

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