Pictures: "Deep Impact" Comet Revealed by NASA Flyby
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 11:30
in Astronomy & Space
In the first NASA mission to visit a comet twice, close-ups of Tempel 1 show that a 2005 smashup left a scar.
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