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First image from Stardust! ...but a delay for the close-approach ones
Posted By Emily Lakdawalla
2011/02/15 02:25 CST
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Here it is, the first second image from Stardust of Tempel 1 during the close-approach phase:

NASA / JPL / UMD
Stardust's first close-approach image of Tempel 1
Stardust took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 04:35 UTC on February 15, from a distance of approximately 2,540 kilometers.If I were younger, I might stay up to watch them come down from the spacecraft one by one. But I'm tired. So I'm going to go to bed, and hope to see some great images at this page on JPL's website when I wake up.
Congratulations to the team on an evidently successful flyby! And goodnight!
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