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MAIN STORIES:-<br />Scientists have long suspected that a major ingredient in comets is water ice. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Deep Impact mission which occurred on the 4th of July last year now proves it.<br /><br />Observations from Spitzer Space Telescope reveal ingredients of comet Tempel 1.<br /><br />The overall shape and surface features of comet Tempel 1 are quite different from the two other comets whose nuclei have been studied, according to the latest analysis of data and images from the Deep Impact mission.<br /><br /><br />Deep impact confirms that comets aren't mostly ice, as was once thought.<br /><br />Check out dis site for more information...<br />http://www.space.com/deepimpact/<br />

 

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Hi there 8320.<br /><br />See this link to an earlier thread on this very subject Deep Impact Results & Extended Mission.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>