Solar System Exploration: Deep Impact Legacy Site: Discovery Zone

Discovery Zone

Fun Facts | Model Kits | Color Page | Comet Quiz | Can You Answer This?

Welcome to the Deep Impact Discovery Zone. Find lots of great things to know and do by yourself, with your friends or your family.

Things to Know
	Cosmic Car Crash Facts about the Deep Impact mission	Fun Facts Learn some amazing facts about the mission.
	Deep News For Grade 5 through adult Read the official mission newsletter.	Comet Facts Find out more about comets.
	Your Community Meet others who followed the Deep Impact mission.	What is an ORT? It stands for Operation Readiness Test, a dress rehearsal for the night of encounter.

Things to Do
	Amateur Observers Program Learn what it takes to see Comet Tempel 1 through a telescope.	Deep Impact Model Kits Choose from our impactor, basic spacecraft or detailed spacecraft models and build your own.
	Deep Impact Coloring Page Show how much you know about comets with our Deep Impact coloring page.

Games to Play
	Comet Crossword Puzzles Fill in the boxes and see what you know.	Word Search Games Can you find words about the Deep Impact mission and comets?
	Fun Facts Quiz How much do you really know about Deep Impact? Test yourself.	Can You Answer This? If you think you're a Deep Impact expert, try this out!
	Brain Twisters Bend your brain with riddles the team had to solve.	Mission Challenges Calling all math wizards - test yourself with challenges from our team.
	Special Organizations If you belong to a youth organization or you want something for your community to do, check out our activities for special organizations.	Name That Game Play Pin the Tail On the Comet at your next party.

NASA Official: Kristen Erickson

Advisory: Dr. James Green, Director of Planetary Science

Outreach Manager: Alice Wessen