 |  | | | | First Pieces of Genesis Spacecraft Shipped to Researchers
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01.18.2005
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Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have shipped pieces of the Genesis polished aluminum collector to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, marking the first distribution of a Genesis scientific sample from JSC since the science canister arrived there Oct. 4, 2004.
Image left: Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have shipped a piece of the Genesis polished aluminum collector to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
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Image left: The sample, the first to be allocated for Genesis early science analysis, may hold important evidence about the overall composition of the sun.
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Image left: Several important Genesis science objectives will be investigated as part of the Early Science Return, including studies of noble gas isotopes in bulk solar wind and nitrogen isotopes.
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