{"id":287,"date":"2005-07-05T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2005-07-05T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T13:23:19","slug":"deep_impact_succeeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/07\/05\/deep_impact_succeeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Impact Succeeds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, kids &#8212; I hope everyone out there in InternetLand had a good Fourth of July. The folks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory certainly did. Their <i>Deep Impact<\/i> space mission (which I <a title=\"You Want Some Fireworks?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2005\/06\/you_want_some_fireworks\/\">previewed<\/a> for you a month ago) went off without a hitch, slamming its impactor probe into the comet Tempel 1 just before midnight Salt Lake time on Sunday, July 3rd. The boom resulting from an object the size of a washing machine connecting with an object half the size of Manhattan Island at roughly 23,000 miles an hour apparently surprised even the people who designed the probe:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Big ba-da-comet-boom!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/deep_impact_generates_flash_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The collision was photographed by the <i>Deep Impact<\/i> &#8220;fly-by spacecraft&#8221; (which, conveniently enough, is also the vehicle that released the impactor) as well as the Hubble telescope and a number of other probes, satellites, and observatories. As a result, the Internet today is awash in cool images like the one above. There&#8217;s even video taken from the impactor as it approached its final destination. Think back to those missile-cams that so impressed us back during the &#8217;91 Gulf War and you&#8217;ll get the idea. If you&#8217;re interested in this stuff, you&#8217;ll want to start with the <a href=\"http:\/\/deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\">mission home page<\/a>, which includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov\/gallery\/index.html\">gallery<\/a> of images, video, animation, and artwork. There&#8217;s also lots of information about the impactor and the flyby spacecraft, Tempel 1 and comets in general, the technology used to make this happen, and the reasons why scientists thought it would be a good idea to deface one of the other objects in our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, kids &#8212; I hope everyone out there in InternetLand had a good Fourth of July. The folks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory certainly did. Their Deep Impact space mission (which I previewed for you a month ago) went off without a hitch, slamming its impactor probe into the comet Tempel 1 just before midnight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}