Deep impact mission: looking beneath the surface of a cometary nucleus
Éditeur :
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN :
9781402035999
Date de publication :
10 août 2005
Dimensions :
23,2 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavated material with its imagers and spectrometers.