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Figure 1: Temperature Map
This image composite shows comet Tempel 1 in visible (left) and
infrared (right) light (figure 1). The infrared picture highlights the
warm, or sunlit, side of the comet, where NASA's Deep Impact
probe later hit. These data were acquired about six minutes
before impact. The visible image was taken by the medium-resolution
camera on the mission's flyby spacecraft, and the infrared data were
acquired by the flyby craft's infrared spectrometer.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
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