Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The sample return capsule of the Stardust spacecraft will be recovered in northern Utah on January 15, 2006, and under nominal conditions it will be delivered to the new Stardust Curation Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center two days later. Within the first week we plan to begin the harvesting of aerogel cells, and the comet nucleus samples they contain for detailed analysis. By the time of the LPSC meeting we will have been analyzing selected removed grains for more than one month. This presentation will present the first results from the mineralogical and petrological analyses that will have been performed.
Keywords:
Geophysics
Type:
Ipsc; Mar 11, 2006 - Mar 17, 2006; Houston, TX; United States
Format:
application/pdf