Scientists designing spacecraft to crash into comet
Engineers are getting ready to test equipment which will propel a spacecraft into Comet Tempel 130 million kilometres from earth.
The craft will be about 0.6m high and 1.3m wide with a large copper nose that will be able to smash into the comet, traveling at 22,000 mph, creating a crater.
Another spacecraft will record the image of the collision using two high-powered telescopes to see what kinds of chemicals are released from the comet after the impact.
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