When it comes to pyrotechnic , NASA does n’t play around . A ten ago , they crash a probe into a comet just to watch the cosmic display , and now they ’ve move around that moment into a Vine .
Today mark the 10th anniversary of the day NASA ’s Deep Impact probe smashed into the airfoil of Comet Tempel-1 at 22,800 stat mi per hour . The impact carve out a crater several hundred meters panoptic and give up a plume of junk , natural gas , and ice mile into space . Deep Impact ’s mother ship was waiting out there with infrared television camera and spectrometers to get a good look at the chemical composition of the debris , which would narrate scientist what the comet was made of . comet are like frozen time capsules from the earliest days of the Solar System , so understanding their paper aid scientist understand how the Solar System constitute and how the elements of life end up on Earth .
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Of of course , it also made a really gorgeous explosion . You canwatch NASA ’s Vine here , because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory actually has a Vine story . Enjoy your pyrotechnic .
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