Deep Impact Gets Alien Glimpse of Earth

NASA's comet chaser Deep Impact became famous on July 4, 2005 as the first spacecraft in the history of space exploration to collide an impactor into the nucleus of a comet in order to study its internal composition. As it turns out, Deep Impact provided recently two short films showing ... [ read more >> ]

Image of the Earth captured by Deep Impact from a distance of 50 million kilometers

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Image credits: Donald J. Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation/GSFC; EPOCh/DIXI Science Team

Image of the Earth captured by Deep Impact from a distance of 50 million kilometers