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		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

Before and after ground-based images of Comet Tempel 1
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Posted: July 4, 2005

The Faulkes Telescope in Hawaii captured these before (left) and after images that show the comet increases in brightness following the impact. Credit: Faulkes Telescope Project.

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