Stardust returns to earth successfully
January 2006
Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL
The NASA Stardust spacecraft has just returned to earth after a highly successful 7 year voyage through space. To quote from the Stardust web site - Scientists have confirmed that particles from a comet and interstellar dust have been returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission. "The collection of cometary particles has exceeded our expectations," said Dr. Donald Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington, Seattle. "We were absolutely thrilled to see thousands of impacts on the aerogel."
XRT will use it's XuM ultraMicroscope and it's PCX phase contrast X-ray system to locate cometary dust particles in the aerogel samples.
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