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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavated material with its imagers and spectrometers. The book describes the mission, its objectives, expected results, payload, and data products in articles written by those most closely involved. This mission has the potential of revolutionizing our understanding of the cometary nucleus.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
C. T. Russell has over 40 years experience on space flight missions including Apollo 15 and 16, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, Vega 1 and 2, Phobos, Galileo and Cassini among many others. Previous books in this series under his editorship have included Galileo, Genesis, 2001 Mars Odyssey, and Cassini. He has published over 1100 articles in journals and books on topics of planetary and space physics and won several awards including the AGU’s Fleming and Macelwane medals and COSPAR Space Science prize.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deep Impact Mission: Looking Beneath the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus
Editors: Christopher T. Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4163-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3599-9Published: 10 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6907-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4163-1Published: 16 January 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 396
Additional Information: Reprinted from SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS, 117:1-2, 2005