Dust and gas are seen in these images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1, as observed with the 1-metre ESA Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope, located at the Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Caption: ESO PR Photo 17/05 is a false-colour composite image of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 taken with EMMI on the ESO 3.5m New Technology Telescope, during the night from 2005 May 4 to 5. North is up, East is ...
On 4 July 2005, the impactor of the NASA Deep Impact mission hit the surface of comet 9P/Tempel 1 with a relative velocity of 10.2 km s-1. The collision of the impactor with a mass of 362 kg was ...
ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser spacecraft has acquired its first view of the Deep Impact target, Comet 9P/Tempel 1. This first Rosetta image of the Deep Impact campaign was taken by its Navigation Camera ...