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Deep Impact News Flash

July 3, 2005

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft collided with the comet Tempel 1. The following movie and images were taken by NHK's HDTV camera and the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (COMICS) on the Subaru telescope (for more information, see this page). The data taken by COMICS has been made publicly available for astronomers all over the world through this page. The impact time is estimated to be at 7:52:03pm HST.

 

Image and Movie from HDTV (Visible light)

High Res. / Low Res.
Pre-impact (-1min) and post-impact (+24min)

* Captured true-color HDTV movie
* Field of view : Approx. 5,500km x 2,000km each

Windows Media Video
-1min, Just after the impact, +1, +3, +5, +18, and +24min

* Trimmed true-color HDTV movie
* Field of view : Approx. 5,500km x 4,000km
* Frame rate : 1/30 sec
* File size: 4.7MB
* The atmospheric turbulence causes the image motion.
To see this movie, you will need Windows Media Player.

 

Images from COMICS (Mid-infrared)

Larger Image
Pre-impact: Friday, July 1, 8:13 p.m. HST (false color)

* Wavelength : 10.5μm (1μm=0.001mm)
* Field of view : Approx. 12,000km x 10,000km

Larger Image
Post-impact: Sunday, July 3, 9:50 p.m. HST (false color)

* Wavelength : 10.5μm (1μm=0.001mm)
* Field of view : Approx. 12,000km x 10,000km

 

Original Data on July 3 from COMICS (For researchers)
* comics.tar.gz (Reduced data, 18MB)
* Specifications for COMICS

 

July 3, 2005: Release
July 4, 2005 : Update
July 6, 2005 : Update

 

 

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