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Collection:
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection
Creator:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Description:
Stardust will use a unique medium called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of comet Wild 2 in January 2004, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. The collected samples will return to Earth in January 2006.
Contributor:
JPL Archives
Where:
Stardust
Where:
Earth