Starship Asterisk*

This qualifies as art! Kudos to the mission planners who scheduled taking this picture.

I understand the part about the image being a compilation of images taken at various distances from the target. What has me confused is the following: The impact site has the highest resolution because images were acquired until about 4 sec from impact or a few meters from the surface. Taken togethe...

There appears to be a slight incongruity in the caption at the photojournal site from which this image originates. At 10km/sec, 4 seconds prior to impact the probe would have been 40km from the surface, not 'a few meters', right? Or am I missing something here. :) I suspect the description meant to ...