NASA Deep Impact Image: Comet Tempel 1 Before the Crash
This image shows comet Tempel 1 sixty seconds before it ran over NASA’s Deep Impact probe at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time, July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4). The picture was taken by the probe’s impactor targeting sensor.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
