Space Stardust
Comets are ancient bodies of frozen ice and dust that formed beyond the orbit of the most distant planet.
Space stardust. It was the first sample return missionof its kind. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the comaof cometwild 2 as well as samples of cosmic dust and return these to earth for analysis. Vidéos documentaires consacrées à l histoire spatiale et aéronautiques.
Stardust a nasa discovery class mission was the first to return samples from a comet and from interstellar space. A smaller fraction of dust in space is stardust consisting of larger refractory minerals that condensed as matter left by stars. The mission launched on february 7 1999 and successfully encountered comet wild 2 on january 2 2004.
The capsule had been dropped. A mission with many scientific surprises the primary goal of the stardust mission was to collect samples of a comet and return them to earth for laboratory analysis. Stardustwas a 390 kilogram roboticspace probelaunched by nasaon 7 february 1999.