Posted by Davin Flateau on 4 Jul 2005 at 1:47 am.
Filed under Astronomy.
A CCD image is worth a thousand words.
Taken from the flyby spacecraft moments after impact. The ejecta plume is far brighter than most scientists were expecting.
One of the final images the Impactor spacecraft took as it hurdled toward its death at 23,000 mph toward Tempel 1’s surface.
More images here.
