Comet, Mercury
NASA recently abandoned an ambitious mission to land a spacecraft on the comet Tempel 1. Now the agency just wants to blast away at it. Deep Impact, one of two new Discovery science missions approved by NASA last week, is to fire a 1,100-lb. copper projectile into Tempel 1 at 22,300 mph. The...
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