The NASA spacecraft Stardust met on Tuesday 15 February at 3:39 UTC with sobevuelo expected and very close to the comet passing within 200 km, after a journey of more than 5.6 billion miles since its launch in February 99.
No images were broadcast live on NASA TV of the comet, we could only witness the scientists have the details of the mission from the room flight controllers and witnessed the applause to a confirmed fact.
The process of transmission of the scheduled 72 images has been a very long way from the re-orientation of the high-gain antenna after the overlap of Tempel for later transmission one by one in order to obtain the footage and the corresponding processing of these.
The following pictures were "rotated or turned" from the original 90 degrees anti-clockwise to be positioned with the same orientation as those obtained by the Deep Impact in 2005. The whole operation was very slow and this hour is ending. Now to await the opinion of scientists of the project and the final results in some time maybe.
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