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Stardust probe through comet tail and on way home

mike65 · 2004-01-03 13:24:12

Much more interesting than the Mars probes (I think) is this mission which has a great simple idea at its heart - travel 3 billion Km grab some dust just 240 km from the comets core (don't hit it by accident) and come back! It'll only take 7 years :) http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/040102.html Mike.

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Much more interesting than the Mars probes (I think)
is this mission which has a great simple idea at its heart - travel 3 billion Km grab some dust just 240 km from the comets core (don't hit it by accident) and come back! It'll only take 7 years

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/040102.html

Mike.

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