Photos: Snowy dirtball

A closer look at Tempel 1 comes from the probe's impactor targeting sensor.

A bright splash is seen 67 seconds after the Deep Impact probe hit the surface of Tempel 1.

This false-color image shows comet Tempel 1 about 50 minutes after Deep Impact's probe smashed into its surface. The colors represent brightness, with white indicating the brightest materials and black showing the faintest materials. This brightness is a measure of reflected sunlight.

This is what Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft saw 50 minutes after its probe collided with Comet Tempel 1.

These images depict the development of the plume when Deep Impact's impactor collided with comet Tempel 1. The images were spaced 0.84 seconds apart. The red arrows highlight shadows.