NASA's Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
A
Halley's Comet
B
Hale-Bopp
C
Hyakutake
D
Tempel 1
Correct Answer: Tempel 1
NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of Tempel 1 comet nucleus. It is a periodic Jupiter-family comet that was discovered in 1867 by Wilhelm Tempel. As per the research, it completes an orbit of the sun every 5.5 years of time.