Abstract The High-Resolution Imaging Camera (HiRIC) is one major payload of China's first
Mars exploration mission, and its main objective is to obtain the detailed observation images …

The Moon is generally anhydrous, yet the Deep Impact spacecraft found the entire surface to
be hydrated during some portions of the day. Hydroxyl (OH) and water (H2O) absorptions in …

Understanding how comets work—what drives their activity—is crucial to the use of comets
in studying the early solar system. EPOXI (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact …

Abstract The Deep Impact mission will provide the first data on the interior of a cometary
nucleus and a comparison of those data with data on the surface. Two spacecraft, an …

In July of 2005, the Deep Impact mission collided a 366 kg impactor with the nucleus of
Comet 9P/Tempel 1, at a closing speed of 10.2 km s− 1. In this work, we develop a first …

Abstract The EPOXI Discovery Mission of Opportunity reused the Deep Impact flyby
spacecraft to obtain spatially and temporally resolved visible photometric and moderate …

When Earth-mass extrasolar planets first become detectable, one challenge will be to
determine which of these worlds harbor liquid water, a widely used criterion for habitability …

We report the direct detection of solid water ice deposits exposed on the surface of comet
9P/Tempel 1, as observed by the Deep Impact mission. Three anomalously colored areas …

The coma of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 has a significant population of large particles observed
as point sources in images taken by the Deep Impact spacecraft. We measure their spatial …

Data from the Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation
(EPOXI) mission show Comet 103P/Hartley 2 is a bi-lobed, elongated, nearly axially …