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Deep Impact mission imminent, fireworks expected  |
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| NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is on course
for a July 4 encounter with comet Tempel 1. (Photo:
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| The Delta 2 rocket took off from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station as planned at 1:47 p.m. EST (1:47 p.m. EST)
with a spacecraft -- named Deep Impact -- the size of a small car tucked
inside its nose cap. The probe was put on a path to smash a
hole in Comet Tempel 1 on July 4 more than 82 million miles from
Earth to unlock the mystery of the solar system's origin. (Photo:
Xinhua/AFP) |
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