CAN YOU ANSWER THIS? ANSWERS - JANUARY 2004
- Why is the spacecraft solar panel hinged and in two parts?
deepimpact.umd.edu/disczone/braintwist-mission1a.html - If we need as heavy an impactor as possible to make a crater in a comet, why did we recently need to remove some weight from the impactor?
deepimpact.umd.edu/disczone/braintwist-mission4a.html - What is the orbital period for our target Comet Tempel 1?
deepimpact.umd.edu/science/tempel1.html - Between the impactor and the flyby spacecraft, how many instruments will take visual images?
deepimpact.umd.edu/tech/instruments.html - How did the mission get the name Deep Impact?
deepimpact.umd.edu/mission/di-name.html - How large do we think Comet Tempel 1 is?
deepimpact.umd.edu/science/tempel1.html - What is a Whipple Shield and what does it do?
deepimpact.umd.edu/newsletter/200308.html - Where is the spacecraft being built?
deepimpact.umd.edu/tech/ - What is a Discovery Mission?
discovery.nasa.gov/
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