print email comment close Deep Impact URL: http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/ Description: In 2005, NASA scientists will crash a spaceship into a comet in order to study the effect of the impact and to provide "first-ever views deep beneath a comet's surface." Find background information, news, a mission timeline, general information about comets and comet missions, and technological details of the flight system. Includes educational materials and activities for children. Searchable. From the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Author: Rountree-Brown, Maura, curator Extra Keywords tempel 1 Library of Congress Subject Headings: Astronomy Comets LII Database Information: Record 8183 created by Sybil Finemel on 09/01/2003 Last modification on 07/02/2005 Published: 09/01/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8183