Taken on April 25, 2005, sixty-nine days before it gets up-close-and-personal with a comet, NASA Deep Impact spacecraft successfully photographed its quarry, comet Tempel 1, at a distance of 39.7 million miles.
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Title: Deep Impact Spots Quarry
Creator: NASA/JPL/UMD
Date Created: 2005-04-27
Rights: JPL
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