page_title: Tempel 1
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Tempel 1 / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Comet Tempel 1 as Seen by NASA's Stardust. NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST (11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011. The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005.
context_page_description: Tempel 1 is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867. It completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. Tempel 1 was the target of the Deep Impact space mission, which photographed a deliberate high-speed impact upon the comet in 2005. It was re-visited by the Stardust spacecraft on February 14, 2011 and came back to perihelion in August 2016.
caption: Tempel 1 from the Stardust spacecraft in 2011
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