Ever hit a bullet with another bullet? JPL did last night, from a gun they fired six months ago. The Deep Impact spacecraft slammed into comet Tempel-1, creating a spectacle:
the impactor approaches the comet
just before impact
view of impact from flyby craft
Congratulations to the Jet Propulsion Lab.
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