NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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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