NASA DC-8 Stardust Observation Test Flights + View Larger Image
	NASA DC-8 Stardust Observation Test Flights + View Larger Image
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	Group photo of campaign participants (both airborne and ground-based crews). + View Larger Image
	Mission Principal Investigator Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute (right) and colleague Mike Koop of the San Jose Astronomical Association are installing a miniature Echelle spectrograph for measurement of shock emission lines. + View Larger Image
	Mission control at the consol, standing Chris Miller of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. + View Larger Image
	Researcher Geoff Mcharg of the U.S. Air Force Academy and colleague Takeshi Kammae of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks install a high framerate imaging spectrograph for measurements of rapid fluctiations in shock emissions. + View Larger Image
	Researcher Mike Taylor and colleague Mitsumu Ejiri of Utah State University at Logan inspect the results of a near-infrared spectrograph using Sensors Unlimited cameras sensitive between 0.9 and 1.7 micron wavelength for measurements of the peak of the blackbody curve. + View Larger Image
	Researcher Masayuki Yamamoto refines the setting of a University of Kobe (Japan) near-UV spectrograph that measures a key signature of carbon ablating from the surface of the sample return capsule. + View Larger Image
	Plasma physicist Michael Winter of Stuttgart University in Germany checks the boresighting on a slit-spectrograph for high-resolution measurement of air plasma emissions with mission P.I. Peter Jenniskens assisting. + View Larger Image
	Franzesca Harms and George Raiche of NASA Ames Research Center operate a large pixel format cooled CCD camera and spectrograph for detecting the capsule early in flight. + View Larger Image
	Greg Merkes and Jesse Carpenter of NASA Ames search for the Iridium flare using a high definition broadcast camera for high spatial resolution imaging. + View Larger Image
	Researcher Geoff Mcharg of the U.S. Air Force Academy inspects the images from a high framerate spectrograph with Takeshi Kammae watching the starfield to which the camera is poined. + View Larger Image

For more information, please visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/exploringtheuniverse/stardust.html

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2006/06_01AR.html

http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov

To view a map of the stardust path, please visit:

http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/viewingarea.jpg

NASA photographer Eric James