Seven Samples from the Solar System's Birth

Seven Samples from the Solar System's Birth
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - by Aaron L. Gronstal for a href="http://www.astrobio.net/">Astrobiology Magazine /a> At this year's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), scientists reported that, after eight painstaking years of work, they have retrieved seven particles of interstellar dust from NASA's Stardust spacecraft. Stardust was launched in 1999 to chase the comet Wild 2. The spacecraft captured particl ... more

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