News tagged with stardust
First discovery of life's building block in comet made
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2009 |
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NASA releases images of man-made crater on comet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2011 |
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'Ultra-primitive' particles found in comet dust
Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution. The stratospheric ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The chemistry of exploding stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental chemical processes in predecessors of our solar system are now a bit better understood: An international team led by Peter Hoppe, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Stardust spacecraft may have found cosmic dust
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first specks of interstellar dust may have been found by NASA's Stardust spacecraft during its seven-year-long voyage. Interstellar dust is believed to form from gas ejected from stars, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Comet-hunting spacecraft shuts down after 12 years
With the click of a mouse, Sandy Freund Kasper sent a command to NASA's comet-hunting Stardust space probe to burn all its fuel, starting a sequence that would shut the spacecraft down after a 12-year run ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2011 |
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NASA's Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away
Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver to adjust the time of its encounter by eight hours and 20 minutes. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Cometary rendezvous set for Valentine's Day
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the beginning, both couples seemed meant for each other.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Frozen comet had a watery past, scientists find
For the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence for the presence of liquid water in a comet, shattering the current paradigm that comets never get warm enough to melt the ice that makes up the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 05, 2011 |
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NASA's Stardust: Good to the last drop
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Thursday, March 24 at about 4 p.m. PDT (7 p.m. EDT), NASA's Stardust spacecraft will perform a final burn with its main engines.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Two-timing spacecraft has date with another comet (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2011 |
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NASA's Stardust spacecraft completes comet flyby, sending photos back to Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2011 |
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NASA comet hunter spots its Valentine
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Stardust spacecraft has downlinked its first images of comet Tempel 1, the target of a flyby planned for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14. The images were taken on Jan. 18 and 19 from a distance ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Heading into the bonus round -- in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2011 |
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NASA spacecraft burns for another comet flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eighty-six days out from its appointment with a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet Tempel 1 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2010 |
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