Deep Impact declared dead
Friday, September 20, 2013 17:09
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After almost 9 years in space, including an unprecedented impact and subsequent flyby of a comet, an additional flyby of a comet, and the return of 500,000 images of celestial objects, NASA’s Deep Impact mission has ended. The probe’s long mission (it set a record as history’s most traveled comet research mission at about 4.7 billion miles) was reluctantly declared over after communication with the spacecraft was lost.
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