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RIGHT-CLICK on these links to "Open in a new window" //Stardust mission - Stardust was launched on the 7th of February in the year 1999. The reason for the launch of this mission was for a chance to observe and explore the comet Tempel 1.// //Much has been learned already from this mission such as that the comets are an odd mixture of materials that had formed at the highest and lowest temperatures that had existed in an earlier solar system// // The one problem stardust had was it was going through decontamination and while it was taking pictures it went into safe mode causeing a faulty history to be down loaded but Stardust was eventualy recovered from safe mode. **Deep Impact Mission - Deep impact was launched on January 12, 2005**// Before the collision, Deep Impact took pictures of the comet, it observes and records the impact of the comet and material that was blasted from it and rocords information on the interior of the crater. what has been learned so far is changes in the comets activity** //Dawn was launched September 27, 2007 the reason for the launch is for Dawn to orbit the two largest asteroids in the solar system, Vesta and Ceres, and specify the properties of each asteroid. what has been learned so far is both protoplanets differntiate in properties problems with this mission were that launch was delayed a day because of weather and lift of was delayed 14 minutes because of a boat in the safety range//
 * Category 10 - Other Cool Stuff **
 * Starshine || [|www.azinet.com/starshine] ||
 * Stardust || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Deep Impact || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Dawn || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * GALEX || NASA Current ||
 * EPOXI || NASA Current ||
 * WMAP || NASA Current ||
 * Deep Space 1 || JPL Past ||
 * the reason for the launch of this mission was also to learn more about the comet Tempel 1, discovered in 1867 by Ernst Tempel

PL PAST Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past_missions.cfm JPL CURRENT Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm NASA CURRENT Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html