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Countdown to Impact

		Impactor release: Sunday 2:07 a.m. EDT Impact with comet: Monday 1:52 a.m. EDT First post-impact photo: Monday 2:08 a.m. EDT Detailed timeline Impactor release story Mission Status Center Photo: Impactor deploy Video coverage

The Mission

		NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will fire a projectile into the heart of Comet Tempel 1 to expose materials frozen inside the rocky snowball since the solar system formed four billion years ago. Mission overview Info on comets The science objectives Spacecraft fact sheet

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Posted: June 28, 2005

Source: NASA

Ares 1-X Patch

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Apollo Collage

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