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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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Title:
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A Game of Space Telephone
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A Game of Space Telephone
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Original Caption Released with Image:
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This image shows NASA's Deep Impact impactor spacecraft while it was being built at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo. On July 2, at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 3), the impactor will be released from Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft. One day later, it will collide with Tempel 1. The impactor cannot directly talk to Earth, so it will communicate via the flyby spacecraft during its final day.
The two spacecraft communicate at "S-band" frequency. The impactor's S-band antenna is the rectangle-shaped object seen on the top of the impactor in this image.
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This image shows NASA's Deep Impact impactor spacecraft while it was being built at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo. On July 2, at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 3), the impactor will be released from Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft. One day later, it will collide with Tempel 1. The impactor cannot directly talk to Earth, so it will communicate via the flyby spacecraft during its final day.
The two spacecraft communicate at "S-band" frequency. The impactor's S-band antenna is the rectangle-shaped object seen on the top of the impactor in this image.
Original Caption Released with Image
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Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
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NASA/JPL/Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
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Produced By:
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
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Mission:
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Deep Impact
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Deep Impact
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Spacecraft:
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Deep Impact
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Deep Impact
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Instrument:
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Impactor
Instrument
Impactor
Instrument
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Instrument:
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S-band Antenna
Instrument
S-band Antenna
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Product Size:
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720 samples x 1105 lines
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720 samples x 1105 lines
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Earth
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Earth
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Impactor
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Impactor
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Deep Impact
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Deep Impact
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S-band Antenna
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S-band Antenna
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Image #:
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PIA02110
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UID:
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA02110
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA02110
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