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NASA Spacecraft's Pinch of Comet Dust Reveals 'Cosmic Zoo'
12.14.06 -- Materials formed in different times and places in space mixed "a whole lot" during the solar system's formation, according to an international team of scientists who studied comet particles captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft in January 2004.
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 Stardust returns to Earth
Astrobiology and Stardust
NASA’s Stardust mission has provided the opportunity for astrobiologists to gain deeper insight into this history.
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 Comet Wild 2
Stardust Findings Suggest Comets More Complex than Thought
Comets may be more than just simple conglomerations of ice, dust and gases.
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 Comet dust
NASA Spacecraft's Pinch of Comet Dust Reveals 'Cosmic Zoo'
"Comet dust seems to be a real zoo of things; we see all kinds of particles that are clearly formed at different places, possibly at different times and certainly under different conditions," said Scott Sandford.
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 Stardust laboratory
NASA Study Finds New Kind of Organics in Stardust Mission
A team of scientists found a new class of organics in comet dust captured from Comet Wild 2 in 2004 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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NASA Tropical Ozone Studies Yield Surprises
Two new NASA-funded studies of ozone in the tropics using NASA satellite data not previously available are giving scientists a fuller understanding of the processes driving ozone chemistry and its impacts on pollution and climate change.
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