Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 28, 2014 #1 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Seven Samples from the Solar System’s Birth 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 particles from the tail of the comet. The samples showed that cometary materials have undergone a great deal of alteration since the birth of the Solar System – such as heating and melting when comets pass near the Sun. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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