Before the Crash Target Name:   Comet Tempel 1 Spacecraft:   Deep Impact Instrument:   Impactor Targeting Sensor Produced by:   NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Cross Reference:   PIA02124 Date Taken:   3 July 2005

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This image shows comet Tempel 1 six minutes before it ran over NASA's Deep Impact probe at 10:52 a.m. Pacific time, July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4). The picture was taken by the probe's impactor targeting sensor.