The DeepR (Deep Rosetta) mission will fly a build-to-print clone of the highly successful Deep Impact mission to an encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is the current destination ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In anticipation of the 25-year-anniversary of “Deep Impact,” Dr. Clark R. Chapman and his wife Y Chapman decided to rewatch the classic sci-fi disaster flick.

In the summer of 1998, Hollywood offered up not one, but two blockbuster films about asteroids hurtling towards Earth. Released on May 8 of that year, Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder, told a ...

Deep Impact is still a big blockbuster, and it’s still kinda silly (Elijah Wood outruns a tidal wave on a motorcycle for crying out loud), but it stands the test of time better than Armageddon ...

The names of more than 600,000 people will be part of the fireworks July 3-4 when Comet Tempel 1 collides with the Deep Impact impactor spacecraft. When Deep Impact was in its final stages of ...

What a difference five years makes. New portraits of Comet Tempel 1 reveal pitting, erosion and other surface features that weren’t there in July 2005, the last time the comet was photographed ...

Scientists hope the mission, called Deep Impact, will reveal what comets are made of and how they're put together. Space. Deep Impact Headed for July 4 Crash with Comet. July 1, 2005 12:00 AM ET.

Completing nearly a decade of comet exploration, NASA's Deep Impact mission was the most-traveled deep-space comet hunter of its time.

To talk about why Deep Impact failed to capture audiences’ attention back in 1998, and why it deserves our respect in 2018, it must be compared not only to Armageddon, but within the context of ...