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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