Don Yeomans
Don Yeomans
hope
We hope to get 15 centimeters resolution. That's unprecedented resolution.
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The spacecraft has to be smart enough on its own to observe the comet, determine whether it's headed in the right direction, if not, make its own course correction, and then fire its thrusters to achieve that course correction.
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It's not gonna knock your socks off, and it certainly won't be the brightest object in the sky, but it'll be easily observable with the naked eye .
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They could be the watering holes and fuel stations for future interplanetary exploration.
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It looks as though some of the fragments are themselves forming their own sub-fragments.
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Goodness, no. The closest fragment will be about six million miles away--or twenty-five times farther than the Moon.
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We're trying to understand the structure of a comet and also its composition. Once we hit it, we will open up surface areas that are exposed to the sunlight and see new subsurface ices for the first time.