EPOXI Mission

In what year EPOXI has been launched?

• 2000

• 2005

• 2006

• 2010

It was targeted to Tempel 1, which a:

• Asteroid

• Meteorite

• Moon

• Comet

It has provided clues about the comet's

• Composition

• Orbit

• Surface

• Position

The mission sent back approx. .... (of celestial bodies)

• 100,000 images

• 500,000 images

• 50,000 images

• 10,000 images

Deep Impact spent almost ... in space

• 10 years

• 8 years

• 9 years

• 5 years

The end of the mission was in what year?

• 2010

• 2011

• 2013

• 2009

The mass of the spacecraft is around:

• 100 kg

• 200 kg

• 300 kg

• 650 kg

The impactor found out that the surface layer of the comet is very:

• rocky

• small

• bumpy

• porous

Another comet EPOXI studied was:

• Arend-Roland comet

• P/2023 IAAC comet

• Hartley 2 comet

• Hyakutake comet

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