1 00:00:11,379 --> 00:00:07,990 we flew by it at a speed of about 27,000 2 00:00:13,780 --> 00:00:11,389 miles per hour and the space rover comet 3 00:00:15,970 --> 00:00:13,790 in some plane who would have thought 4 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:15,980 that we actually get to see a comet 5 00:00:22,450 --> 00:00:19,310 close up like we just did and when we 6 00:00:24,639 --> 00:00:22,460 first saw this our mouths just dropped a 7 00:00:26,260 --> 00:00:24,649 whole team just drop because we can 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:26,270 begin to see if you look very close to 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:28,250 the nucleus you can see things that are 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:30,410 slowly moving but then as you go farther 11 00:00:35,170 --> 00:00:33,050 way they're really migrating to me this 12 00:00:37,750 --> 00:00:35,180 whole thing looks like a snow globe that 13 00:00:40,180 --> 00:00:37,760 you're just simply shakin and watching 14 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:40,190 it fly when we saw the images come down 15 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:42,530 even in real time in the raw data and 16 00:00:48,310 --> 00:00:46,190 realized we had a cloud of so around the 17 00:00:52,090 --> 00:00:48,320 nucleus we were astounded those are not 18 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:52,100 stars those are all chunks of ice we 19 00:00:56,889 --> 00:00:54,290 think the biggest ones are at least the 20 00:01:00,010 --> 00:00:56,899 size of a golf ball and possibly up to 21 00:01:02,770 --> 00:01:00,020 the size of a basketball there akin more 22 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:02,780 to maybe a dandelion so what that means 23 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:05,210 is that the snowballs are not what we 24 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:06,530 might have thought to begin with we're 25 00:01:10,929 --> 00:01:08,750 not seeing softballs or even ice cubes 26 00:01:13,929 --> 00:01:10,939 what we're seeing our fluffy aggregates 27 00:01:16,179 --> 00:01:13,939 of very small pieces of ice while it's 28 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:16,189 true that water is where the ice is in 29 00:01:20,410 --> 00:01:17,810 fact it's everywhere particularly on the 30 00:01:21,639 --> 00:01:20,420 sunward side of the image to our great 31 00:01:24,099 --> 00:01:21,649 surprise there's a tremendous 32 00:01:26,410 --> 00:01:24,109 enhancement of water vapor coming out of 33 00:01:28,719 --> 00:01:26,420 the waist of this body we wouldn't 34 00:01:31,809 --> 00:01:28,729 expect this at all and so what we're 35 00:01:33,969 --> 00:01:31,819 seeing is an indication that here the 36 00:01:36,099 --> 00:01:33,979 ice is still on the inside it's being 37 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:36,109 heated up by the Sun and that drives the 38 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:37,729 water off we're still continuing to 39 00:01:41,830 --> 00:01:39,130 collect data we've collected about 40 00:01:44,410 --> 00:01:41,840 32,000 images of the comet since 41 00:01:46,379 --> 00:01:44,420 November 4th we continue to look at it 42 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:46,389 about every two minutes and acquire data 43 00:01:50,919 --> 00:01:49,249 returning of over 3,000 images a day of 44 00:01:53,019 --> 00:01:50,929 data by the time we're all finished with 45 00:01:54,639 --> 00:01:53,029 this with this science mission around 46 00:01:56,499 --> 00:01:54,649 Thanksgiving is our last our last 47 00:01:58,929 --> 00:01:56,509 imaging session we will return about 48 00:02:00,639 --> 00:01:58,939 120,000 images of the comet and that