[meteorite-list] Comet Hunter's First Images on the Ground

From: e-mail ensoramanda <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:05:17 +0000
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=NbmGkoR1S2riw8_GB5TbLFRiwJqfQ4M3zs29H_at_mail.gmail.com>

Great comet images.....they seem to show up clear detail of layering
and strata in many places which seems to have an interesting influence
on the crater forms.

Graham, UK

On 15 February 2011 16:25, Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-054
>
> Comet Hunter's First Images on the Ground
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> February 15, 2011
>
> PASADENA, Calif. -- Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion
> Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have begun receiving the first of 72
> anticipated images of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
>
> The first six, most distant approach images are available at
> http://www.nasa.gov/stardust and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov. Additional
> images, including those from closest approach, are being downlinked in
> chronological order and will be available later in the day.
>
> A news conference previously planned for 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) will
> be held later in the day, to allow scientists more time to analyze the
> data and images. A new time will be announced later this morning.
>
> Stardust-NExT is a low-cost mission that expands on the investigation of
> comet Tempel 1 initiated by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. JPL, a
> division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
> Stardust-NExT for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
> Joe Veverka of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is the mission's
> principal investigator. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the
> spacecraft and manages day-to-day mission operations.
>
> More information about Stardust-NExT is available at
> http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov .
>
> DC Agle 818-393-9011
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> agle at jpl.nasa.gov
>
> Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
> NASA Headquarters, Washington
> dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov
>
> Blaine Friedlander 607-254-6235
> Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
> Bpf2 at cornell.edu
>
> 2011-054
>
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Received on Tue 15 Feb 2011 04:05:17 PM PST