Suggested Searches

1 Min Read

Tempel 1 Mission Update

NASA's Deep Impact's Tempel 1 Mission Update. Images of impact taken with the medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit.
PIA02144
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

Description

Images of impact taken with the medium resolution imager. The blue dotted line is the position of the spectrometer's slit. At each point along the slit, a spectrum exists that contains information about the constituents in the spectrometer's field of view.