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Deep Impact
Scientists have picked the Solar System's biggest snowball fight. Their Deep Impact mission involved deliberately firing a guided missile at a comet to learn more about these icy alien objects. What happened when they hit this moving target? Antenna says watch this space...






Mission update...Mission update...
Crashing a cometCrashing a comet
Dirty snowballsDirty snowballs
Experimental explosionsExperimental explosions
 

Background image: Pat Rawlings, NASA/JPL/UMD
 

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