Education and Public Outreach for Nasa’s Deep Impact Mission

McFadden, L. A.; Rountree-Brown, M. K.; Warner, Elizabeth; McLaughlin, S. A.; Behne, Jürgen; Ristvey, J.; Baird-Wilkerson, S.; Duncan, D. K.; Gillam, S. D.; Walker, Guy H.; Meech, К. J.

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“…With favorable geometry, dust and ion tails can be well characterized by amateur astronomer observations, typically made with smaller telescopes with wide fields of view. There have been significant amateur contributions to mission-supporting observation campaigns, which, in addition to their direct scientific value, have been hugely successful in engaging a wider community and the general public in cometary exploration (McFadden et al 2005;Usher et al 2020).…”

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Past and Future Comet Missions

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Feaga²,

Jones³

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We review the history of spacecraft encounters with comets, concentrating on those that took place in the recent past, since the publication of the Comets II book. This includes the flyby missions Stardust and Deep Impact, and their respective extended missions, the Rosetta rendezvous mission, and serendipitous encounters. While results from all of these missions can be found throughout this book, this chapter focuses on the questions that motivated each mission, the technologies that were required to answer these questions, and where each mission opened new areas to investigate. There remain a large number of questions that will require future technologies and space missions to answer; we also describe planned next steps and routes forward that may be pursued by missions that have yet to be selected, and eventually lead to cryogenic sample return of nucleus ices for laboratory study.

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Past and Future Comet Missions

Snodgrass¹,

Feaga²,

Jones³

et al. 2022

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“…Space is an ideal gateway into other STEM fields as it is both intrinsically multi-disciplinary and highly inspirational [13]. The space industry has been successful in inspiring entire nations for decades, and capitalising on that inspiration by maintaining education and public engagement programmes targeted at a large variety of young audiences [14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

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Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): when can students start performing original research?

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Involving students in state-of-the-art research from an early age eliminates the idea that science is only for the scientists and empowers young people to explore STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects. It is also a great opportunity to dispel harmful stereotypes about who is suitable for STEM careers, while leaving students feeling engaged in modern science and the scientific method.As part of the Twinkle Space Mission's educational programme, EduTwinkle, students between the ages of 15 and 18 have been performing original research associated with the exploration of space since January 2016. The student groups have each been led by junior researchers-PhD and post-doctoral scientists-who themselves benefit substantially from the opportunity to supervise and manage a research project. This research aims to meet a standard for publication in peer-reviewed journals. At present the research of two ORBYTS teams have been published, one in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series and another in JQSRT; we expect more papers to follow.

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“…It is anticipated that as the comet brightens in the spring of 2005, the Small Telescope Science Program observers (McFadden et al 2005) will contribute greatly to the data set of wide field dust images needed for the modeling.…”

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The Deep Impact Earth-Based Campaign

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Deep Impact Mission: Looking Beneath the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus

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Prior to the selection of the comet 9P/Tempel 1 as the Deep Impact mission target, the comet was not well-observed. From 1999 through the present there has been an intensive worldwide observing campaign designed to obtain mission critical information about the target nucleus, including the nucleus size, albedo, rotation rate, rotation state, phase function, and the development of the dust and gas coma. The specific observing schemes used to obtain this information and the resources needed are presented here. The Deep Impact mission is unique in that part of the mission observations will rely on an Earth-based (ground and orbital) suite of complementary observations of the comet just prior to impact and in the weeks following. While the impact should result in new cometary activity, the actual physical outcome is uncertain, and the Earth-based observations must allow for a wide range of post-impact phenomena. A worldwide coordinated effort for these observations is described.

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Education and Public Outreach for Nasa’s Deep Impact Mission

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Past and Future Comet Missions

Past and Future Comet Missions

Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): when can students start performing original research?

The Deep Impact Earth-Based Campaign

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