Scientists from the Deep Impact mission to begin work with the first data and images that are still coming to NASA from the space probe. The amount of information being given and early results show interesting spectacle of some of the pictures taken, even though processed digitally, have not left anyone indifferent.welve hours after the impact, investigators have not yet been able to observe the new crater formed as ejections of material thrown into space covering the entire area. Anyway, it is expected that the digital processing of images reveals the point of impact and allow measurements of the structure and composition of the comet. Scientists believe that it will take a week to perform the digital processing of all data before determining the exact size and depth of the crater. Based on the observed effects, is pretty sure that its size is quite large.

Studies conducted before the collision indicated that the size of the crater could be formed between a house and a sports stadium. Along the lines of our planet, the impact would release energy equivalent to 4.5 tons of TNT, creating a structure 30 meters in diameter. Although the energy released during the collision, Tempel 1 would be on roughly the same, the effects on the surface of the cometary nucleus should be quite different, due to its low gravity and density. The impact of the probe Deep Impact is vaporized during the collision. The images show the probe over a sudden flash during the time when the impactor hits the surface cometary, flash being gradually intensifying while generating a plume of ejecta to soar into space. During the ejection of material is also observable in the shadow of the plume itself, which is projected on the icy cometary surface.