Archive for the ‘Tempel 1’ Category

Stardust Returns Comet Material to Earth

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

The sample-return capsule from the Stardust spacecraft landed early this morning in Utah, after gliding through the darkness across the West Coast of the United States. Inside the capsule is valuable cargo: [...]


The Year in Planetary Science

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Humanity improves the vision it turns on the universe in two ways: seeing farther than before and resolving greater detail. 2005 was a year of much more detail, of blurry bodies resolving into [...]


Deep Impact Rewrites the Book on Comets

Monday, July 11th, 2005

When the world’s foremost expert on impact cratering mentions that his preconceived notions about comets have changed at least twice in the past week, it is time to rewrite the book on the [...]


Deep Impact Coverage: RADIO Frontier Channel Episode 09 – Let’s Bomb the Hell out of a Comet

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

The Frontier Channel is proud to announce a brand new format for the RADIO Frontier Channel podcast. Because science and technology news is usually better presented visually, I will begin adding a presentation of images and movies you can click through while listening to the podcast. “Episode 09 – Let’s Bomb the Hell out [...]


Deep Impact Coverage: “Um…Sorry?”

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Deep Impact Flyby took a look back at the devastation it wrought on Comet Tempel 1 and snapped a spectacular image of impact ejecta streaming out into space in a column that has [...]


Deep Impact Coverage: First Images and Science Results from Deep Impact

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Members of the Deep Impact team spoke to reporters early this morning about the success of their mission to Comet Tempel 1. About ten percent of the data has been downloaded from Flyby [...]


Deep Impact Coverage: Impact!

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

In a brilliant explosion, Deep Impact’s impactor spacecraft smashed into Comet Tempel 1 around 10:52 p.m. Pacific Standard Time today. The control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Californa, [...]


Deep Impact Coverage: Comet Tempel 1 in X-Rays

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

There is not a lot of material in the coma of Comet Tempel 1, according to scientists after studying recent observations made by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The space telescope saw a steady [...]


Deep Impact Coverage: Impactor Away!

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Deep Impact successfully deployed its impactor spacecraft early this morning on a one-way trip to destruction by Comet Tempel 1. The flyby spacecraft then burned its engines to take it out of the [...]


Let’s Make a Crater!

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

I cannot express just how excited I am by tonight’s Deep Impact with Comet Tempel 1. Because all that energy has to go somewhere (my energy, not the impact energy), I decided to keep up on the latest images and scientific data all night while providing coverage on my own website, Frontier Channel. [...]