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Deep Impact releases impactor toward comet
www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-03 16:15:22

The Deep Impact spacecraft, which is about the size of a compact car, released the nearly 400kg impactor shortly before 23:00 PDT (1600 GMT) as planned, said the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that's operating the project. 2

(Photo: NASA)

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