Andrew Yee
July 5th 05, 03:11 PM
ESA News
http://www.esa.int
4 July 2005
ESA cheers on NASA's Deep Impact success
ESA's Director of Science, Professor David Southwood, offered his
congratulations to NASA's Deep Impact team, on a successful mission to
Comet 9P/Tempel-1.
The Deep Impact spacecraft has completed its first steps in exploring a
comet's interior by creating a crater with an impactor spacecraft,
allowing the mother spacecraft to look deep inside the comet during a
fly-by immediately afterwards.
"The Deep Impact mission brought the world together in an excellent
opportunity make a new step into the advancement of cometary science,"
said Prof. Southwood today.
"The success of the Deep Impact mission will allowing us to use many space
and ground observatories to look for the first time right inside a comet.
As ESA, we are proud to be contributing to this campaign with some of our
best sky-watchers -- our Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft, the XMM-Newton
X-ray observatory, as well as Hubble Space Telescope (which we share with
NASA) -- and with ESA's Optical Ground Station in the Canary Islands. The
results are going to be a terrific help in planning Rosetta's comet
landing a decade from now."
New data and results on Tempel 1 and the impact will continue to be
received in the next hours and days. Follow us while we continue to cover
one of the world's largest astronomical observation campaigns, which
includes ESA and NASA spacecraft, European observatories and many
co-operating organisations around the world.
More about...
* Rosetta special: ESA views Deep Impact
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/index.html
* Rosetta factsheet
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMJUZS1VED_index_0.html
* XMM-Newton factsheet
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM14YS1VED_index_0.html
* Hubble factsheet
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMB5E1A6BD_index_0.html
Related articles
* Life of a comet
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM3NV0PGQD_0.html
* Preparing for impact
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8PE0DU8E_index_0.html
* Tempel 1: Biography of a comet
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMIUG0DU8E_0.html
* Rosetta monitors Deep Impact
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMCOZ1DU8E_index_0.html
* XMM-Newton to observe Deep Impact
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSZC2DU8E_index_0.html
* Hubble sees outburst from Deep Impact comet
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSBN5DIAE_index_0.html
* ESA observes Deep Impact from Earth
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMNRO5DIAE_0.html
Related links
* Watch NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index_040705.html
* NASA Deep Impact
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html
* ESO Deep Impact news
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-15-05.html
* Arianespace
http://www.arianespace.com
* DLR
http://www.dlr.de
* Astrium Space
http://www.astrium-space.com/
http://www.esa.int
4 July 2005
ESA cheers on NASA's Deep Impact success
ESA's Director of Science, Professor David Southwood, offered his
congratulations to NASA's Deep Impact team, on a successful mission to
Comet 9P/Tempel-1.
The Deep Impact spacecraft has completed its first steps in exploring a
comet's interior by creating a crater with an impactor spacecraft,
allowing the mother spacecraft to look deep inside the comet during a
fly-by immediately afterwards.
"The Deep Impact mission brought the world together in an excellent
opportunity make a new step into the advancement of cometary science,"
said Prof. Southwood today.
"The success of the Deep Impact mission will allowing us to use many space
and ground observatories to look for the first time right inside a comet.
As ESA, we are proud to be contributing to this campaign with some of our
best sky-watchers -- our Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft, the XMM-Newton
X-ray observatory, as well as Hubble Space Telescope (which we share with
NASA) -- and with ESA's Optical Ground Station in the Canary Islands. The
results are going to be a terrific help in planning Rosetta's comet
landing a decade from now."
New data and results on Tempel 1 and the impact will continue to be
received in the next hours and days. Follow us while we continue to cover
one of the world's largest astronomical observation campaigns, which
includes ESA and NASA spacecraft, European observatories and many
co-operating organisations around the world.
More about...
* Rosetta special: ESA views Deep Impact
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/index.html
* Rosetta factsheet
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMJUZS1VED_index_0.html
* XMM-Newton factsheet
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM14YS1VED_index_0.html
* Hubble factsheet
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMB5E1A6BD_index_0.html
Related articles
* Life of a comet
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM3NV0PGQD_0.html
* Preparing for impact
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM8PE0DU8E_index_0.html
* Tempel 1: Biography of a comet
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMIUG0DU8E_0.html
* Rosetta monitors Deep Impact
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMCOZ1DU8E_index_0.html
* XMM-Newton to observe Deep Impact
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSZC2DU8E_index_0.html
* Hubble sees outburst from Deep Impact comet
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSBN5DIAE_index_0.html
* ESA observes Deep Impact from Earth
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMNRO5DIAE_0.html
Related links
* Watch NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index_040705.html
* NASA Deep Impact
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html
* ESO Deep Impact news
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-15-05.html
* Arianespace
http://www.arianespace.com
* DLR
http://www.dlr.de
* Astrium Space
http://www.astrium-space.com/