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Stardust probe through comet tail and on way home

  • 03-01-2004 1:24pm
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    Much more interesting than the Mars probes (I think)
    is this mission which has a great simple idea at its heart - travel 3 billion Km grab some dust just 240 km from the comets core (don't hit it by accident) and come back! It'll only take 7 years :)

    http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/040102.html

    comet.jpg

    stardust_wild2_t.jpg

    Mike.


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