The comet Tempel 1 is photographed by a NASA probe before the washing machine-sized probe collided into the comet half the size of Manhattan in this image taken from television footage July 3, 2005. The spectacular collision, 83 million miles (134 million km) away from Earth, capped a risky voyage to uncover the building blocks of life on Earth. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES REUTERS/NASA/via Reuters TV Deep Impact Impactor 3

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