Since May 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used aircraft to collect interplanetary dust particles (IDP's) from Earth's stratosphere. Specially designed dust collectors are prepared for flight and processed after flight in an ultraclean (Class-100) laboratory constructed for this purpose at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. Particles are individually retrieved from the collectors, examined, and cataloged, and then made available to the scientific community for research. Interplanetary dust thereby joins lunar samples and Antarctic meteorites as a critical extraterrestrial material being curated at JSC.


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    Title :

    Collection and Curation of Interplanetary Dust Particles Recovered from the Stratosphere


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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