The Hurler On The Ditch

The Next Step For Stardust

A capsule containing precious space dust from NASA's Stardust mission is due to arrive at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, US, on Tuesday. The capsule, which appears to have survived its landing intact, is scheduled to be opened on Tuesday evening local time...
The samples include less than one-thousandth of an ounce of dust from Comet Wild 2, which it reached in January 2004, and about 45 grains of interstellar dust. Internet users can search aerogel images for the interstellar dust beginning in March in a project called Stardust@Home.

posted by Hurler @ 4:53 pm