Emily Lakdawalla • Jul 04, 2005
Views of Tempel 1
It looks like the European Space Agency was busy overnight -- lots of great Earth- and space- based images of the impact have been appearing on various websites. Here's a set from Hubble:
![Tempel 1 as seen by Hubble, a minute prior to impact (July 4, 2005 at 05:51 UTC)](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_400x400_crop_center-center_line/20130829_tempel1_hubble_050704_0551_full.jpg 400w)
![Tempel 1 as seen by Hubble, 19 minutes after impact (July 4, 2005 at 06:01 UTC)](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_400x400_crop_center-center_line/20130829_tempel1_hubble_050704_0601_full.jpg 400w)
![The Deep Impact Impact onto Tempel 1 as witnessed by Hubble](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_400x400_crop_center-center_line/20130829_tempel1_hubble_050704_0720_full.jpg 400w)
This view is from ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft.
![The Deep Impact Impact onto Tempel 1 as witnessed by XMM-Newton](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x548_crop_center-center_60_line/20130829_tempel1_xmm-newton_050704_impact_before-after_full.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x411_crop_center-center_60_line/20130829_tempel1_xmm-newton_050704_impact_before-after_full.jpg 576w)
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