Deep Impact ready for the smacking.

[OXO]

There has been reports of outburst's from the Comet Temple 1 and are thought to be water particle's escaping from the comet. These vapourise very quickly and shouldnt hamper the mission....

James

[OXO]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/multimedia/07-03-05-movie.html for a movie of the above mentioned Outbursts..

[Rob]

Yep, looking forward to this... signed up to have my name placed on the space craft's CD around 2 years ago!!!.

I did the same for the 2 rovers on Mars.... just think Mine + the rest of my familys name (less the new addition) are roaming Mars!!

Cool

[OXO]

Nice one rob, i too have mine on the deep impact CD i forgot all about it till you just mentioned COOL!

James

[OXO]

11:45 Comet Impact: Stardate

Programe about deep impact prob showing early results from the Probe/:)

James

[AndyMac]

Glad to see the BBC covering it. Here's the link for further info:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=monday&service_id=4223&filename=20050704/20050704_1145_4223_54466_30

[OXO]

Heres my quick artist impression of what it may look like!

James

[AndyMac]

Very dramatic James. Of course no-one knows for sure what will happen when the probe smacks into this dirty great snowball, but your impression resembles a very feasible possible outcome. Excellent work.

[OXO]

Thanks Andy not bad for 10 or 20mins job could be better , your right neverknow what could happen splat or crack i think. Be good if it split in two..

James

[AndyMac]

Dunno whether you saw the programme James, but as I posted on The Sky at Night thread, there's a possibility that the comet may brighten to naked eye visibility several hours after impact. They were speculating whether it would be visible in UK skies tomorrow night. Look for another 'star' near to & just above Spica in Virgo.

[OXO]

Just added to the pic wasnt happy with the back end lol.

I watched the sky at night andy excellent as always i will be looking out for that skies permiting. Wouldnt it be great if it did brighten over time and let us get a piece of the action. Image the images obtained :shock:

James

[AndyMac]

Those with high end CCD's, in particular, could get some fascinating images.

If it was to brighten, no doubt our skies would be cloudy tomorrow evening!

Ever the optimist! :roll:

[OXO]

Mag 11 skies i reakon(as if) interesting times ahead!

Also on the programe was an image of earth from mars that was heart warming to see...

James

[AndyMac]

Yes, I saw that. Just wondered how Earth compared in brightness to the dazzling Venus as seen from Mars? I suspect that Venus would still be the brighter of the two with its reflective clouds.

[AndyMac]

Very nice rework of the piccy BTW matey.

[OXO]

Thanks again andy .........

Venus brighter than the earth from mars now there's a thought :!: Moonshined earth may win then again venus's cloud's it's a hard one andy i will after work that out tommorow my little grey cell's are going to sleep:) too much photoshop!

James

[AndyMac]

Don't forget that although Earth would be nearer to Mars than Venus when all on the same side of the sun, it would be further away than Venus when Venus/Earth were on the far side of the sun to Mars. Earth's clouds arn't as reflective so I think Venus would still win hands down.............but I digress!

[OXO]

First pic of impacter hitting Comet Temple 1.

More info here http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html

James

[Rob]

Good to see this was a sucess!!.. some nice images coming back.

[AndyMac]

Interesting programme just finished on BBC1. Looks like the mission went better than expected. I would have liked to have seen more of the programme devoted to the actual impact itself - but there you go! Looks like JPL will have plenty of data to analyse over the next few months.

[OXO]

Yes a successive mission by all accounts!...

There's an update on BBC 2 at 8.00pm Tonight.

Some amazing views of temple 1 from what i have seen. Look's like a chunk of our moon to me..

James

[AndyMac]

There's an update on BBC at 8.00pm Tonight.

Or even BBC2, James!

[OXO]

:?: :?

[AndyMac]

Name: Big Dipper

Speciality: Pointing out Orion's mistakes!

[Ant]