Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel), by releasing an impactor into the comet. At 05:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the Impactor successfully collided with the comet's nucleus. The impact excavated debris from the interior of the nucleus, forming an impact crater. Photographs taken by the spacecraft showed the comet to be more dusty and less icy than had been expected. The impact generated an unexpectedly large and bright dust cloud, obscuring the view of the impact crater.

Previous space missions to comets, such as Giotto, Deep Space 1, and Stardust, were fly-by missions. These missions were able to photograph and examine only the surfaces of cometary nuclei, and even then from considerable distances. The Deep Impact mission was the first to eject material from a comet's surface, and the mission garnered considerable publicity from the media, international scientists, and amateur astronomers alike.

Upon the completion of its primary mission, proposals were made to further utilize the spacecraft. Consequently, Deep Impact flew by Earth on December 31, 2007 on its way to an extended mission, designated EPOXI, with a dual purpose to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley). Communication was unexpectedly lost in August 2013 while the craft was heading for another asteroid flyby.

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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Fuck me I hate working with the public sometimes. Customer today decides to talk about how he can't keep a girlfriend. A little out of nowhere and weird but fine, whatever. It's hard being single sometimes so dude just probably needs to vent.

    But then he goes on to to start ranting and raving that it's the feminists fault. That feminists want more rights then men. That men and women are different "iTs jUsT BiOlOgY". Etc. The whole time I (a non-binary woman) am just sitting there letting him go off because obviously it's part of my job to be nice to customers. After he ends by voicing his frustration that women aren't feminine like they used to be, He waits for me to say something. I dunno what to say so I just take a drink from my water bottle, burp and say "Okay. Bye."

    What do guys like this even expect? Of course you can't get a girlfriend, because as soon as they try to get to know you you probably go off like this about how much you hate the movement that gave them a lot of the freedoms they enjoy.