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Deep Impact
Deep Impact is the eighth mission in the Discovery Program, designed to investigate the interior of a cometary nucleus. The two-piece spacecraft was launched on 12 January 2005 and successfully encountered the comet 9P/Tempel 1 on 4 July 2005. About 24 hours before the spacecraft encountered the comet, the flyby spacecraft released the impactor spacecraft, a 1/2-ton copper projectile equipped with a visible CCD, to hit the comet's nucleus. This impact ejected material from the interior of the comet out into space and produced a crater that is believed to be at least 100-m in diameter. The flyby spacecraft and its three instruments survived the encounter with Tempel 1, and resumed operations from October 2007 to February 2011 for the EPOXI mission.
The SBN is the lead PDS node to archive the Deep Impact mission data. The Deep Impact Project Data Management Plan is available as a PDF file (518Kb).
Instruments
- High Resolution Instrument Infrared Spectrometer (HRI-IR)
- High Resolution Instrument Visible CCD (HRI-VIS)
- Medium Resolution Instrument Visible CCD (MRI-VIS)
- Impactor Targeting Sensor Visible CCD (ITS-VIS)
Data Sets
Pre-launch Testing
- Thermal-Vacuum 1: HRI-IR Spectral Data
- Thermal-Vacuum 2: HRI-IR Spectral & HRI-VIS Image Data
- Thermal-Vacuum 3: ITS-VIS Image Data
- Thermal-Vacuum 4: HRI-IR Spectral, HRI-VIS & MRI-VIS Image Data
Cruise
- HRI-IR
- HRI-VIS
- MRI-VIS
- ITS-VIS
Encounter
- HRI-IR
- HRI-VIS
- MRI-VIS
- ITS-VIS
Other Mission Data
- Radio Science Data from the 9P/Tempel 1 Encounter
- Impact Flyby Spacecraft Instrument Temperatures from Flight
- Deep Impact Spice Kernels (9P/Tempel 1)
Derived data products
- Deep Impact & EPOXI Documentation Set v4.0
- Deep Impact/Stardust-NExT Derived Shape Model of 9P/Tempel 1 v2.0
- Photometry of 9P/Tempel 1 from Deep Impact/MRI-VIS Observations
- Derived Surface Temperature Maps of 9P/Tempel 1
- Movies of 9P/Tempel 1 during Approach and Encounter
Support Observations
- IRAS Images of 9P/Tempel 1 from 1983
- IRAS Photometry of 9P/Tempel 1 from 1983
- IRTF Mid-IR Imaging of Comet 9P/Tempel 1
urn:nasa:pds:gbo-irtf:mirsi-9p::1.0 - IRTF Near-IR Images of 9P/Tempel 1 during Deep Impact Encounter
urn:nasa:pds:gbo-irtf:nirimg-9p::1.0 - IRTF/SpeX Near-IR Spectra of 9P/Tempel 1 during Deep Impact Encounter
- Keck I LWS Mid-IR Images and Photometry of 9P/Tempel 1 from 2000
- KPNO Near-Infrared Images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 during Deep Impact Encounter
urn:nasa:pds:gbo-kpno:nirimage-9p::1.0 - Lowell 72-inch Visual Images and Photometry of 9P/Tempel 1 from 2000-2001
- McDonald Observatory 9P/Tempel 1 Spectral Observations
urn:nasa:pds:gbo-mcdonald:lcs-9p::1.0 - Mt. Bigelow 61-inch Kuiper Telescope Visual Images of 9P/Tempel 1 from 1994
- San Pedro Martir 1.5m Visual Images of 9P/Tempel 1 during Deep Impact Encounter
- UH 2.2m Visual Images and Astrometry of 9P/Tempel 1 from 1997-2000
- KPNO Images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from February to June 2005
urn:nasa:pds:gbo-kpno:image-9p::1.0 - KPNO MOSAIC Images of 9P/Tempel 1 from 2005 Around the DI Encounter
urn:nasa:pds:gbo-kpno:mosaic-9p::1.0
Related Datasets
Use the Small Bodies Data Ferret to find other datasets for this mission/target.
