[meteorite-list] Comet Hunter's First Images on the Ground

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:25:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201102151625.p1FGPr6O011185_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-054

Comet Hunter's First Images on the Ground
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
February 15, 2011

PASADENA, Calif. -- Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have begun receiving the first of 72
anticipated images of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.

The first six, most distant approach images are available at
http://www.nasa.gov/stardust and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov. Additional
images, including those from closest approach, are being downlinked in
chronological order and will be available later in the day.

A news conference previously planned for 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) will
be held later in the day, to allow scientists more time to analyze the
data and images. A new time will be announced later this morning.

Stardust-NExT is a low-cost mission that expands on the investigation of
comet Tempel 1 initiated by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. JPL, a
division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
Stardust-NExT for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
Joe Veverka of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is the mission's
principal investigator. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the
spacecraft and manages day-to-day mission operations.

More information about Stardust-NExT is available at
http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov .

DC Agle 818-393-9011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
agle at jpl.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726
NASA Headquarters, Washington
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

Blaine Friedlander 607-254-6235
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Bpf2 at cornell.edu

2011-054
Received on Tue 15 Feb 2011 11:25:53 AM PST