This viewgraph presentation reviews the Stardust mission. The objectives of the mission is to rendezvous with the Wild 2 comet, and using a specially designed aerogel capture some of the cometary material, and then return a capsule with the material to Earth. Other objectives are to provide images of the comet, and capture interstellar dust. There is a description of the aerogel, the trajectory, and views of the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC), Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA) instrument, and the JPL designed camera. Also included is a timeline of the projected release of data to the Planetary Data System.
NASA STARDUST Sample Return Mission
35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly ; 2004 ; Paris, France
2004-07-23
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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