Q101
NASA's Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
A.
Halley's Comet
B.
Hale-Bopp
C.
Hyakutake
D.
Tempel 1
AnswerAnswer: Option D
Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of Tempel 1 comet nucleus. It is a periodic Jupiter-family comet that was discovered in 1867 by Wilhelm Tempel. As per the research, it completes an orbit of the sun every 5.5 years of time.