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was this mission a hundred percent

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successful in terms of the science

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i would have to say no it was a thousand

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percent successful

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we achieved all of our science

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objectives

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we do in fact have a comparison of the

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deep impact area

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and it in fact does show an impact

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crater it's about 150 meters across and

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has a small central mound in the center

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it looks as if from the impact the stuff

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went up and came back down

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you can barely see this but there's a

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little lit area on that side and a dark

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area on the other and that's the central

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mound where we think the material came

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down

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comets unlike any other body in the

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solar system are unique because when

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they're in the inner part of the solar

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system where the earth is they're

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literally coming apart and sending tons

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and tons of gas and rocks and dust out

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in space this spacecraft stardust

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went through this cloud of dust and

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rocks coming off the comet we have

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instruments on the front of the

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spacecraft called a dust flux monitor

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instrument and they have sensor to

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detect these impacts a good analogy of

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thinking of a like a b17 in world war ii

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that's it

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i have a message for any school kids out

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there

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who might be wondering how nasa can send

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a spacecraft billions of miles through

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the solar system and somehow wind up

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flying so close to a tiny comet only a