The First Time We Met a Comet, We Blew a Hole in It

The video discusses the Deep Impact mission, a groundbreaking NASA project that aimed to study comets by impacting one with a spacecraft. The mission provided new insights into comet composition, revealing more dust and less ice than expected, and suggested that comets might have contributed to the origins of life on Earth. The mission's success led to further exploration and highlighted the need for continued research to protect Earth from potential comet impacts.

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