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KSC-98pc1871
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In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers inspect the aerogel grid from the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC) to the right of the worker. Stardust will use a unique medium called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of comet Wild 2 in January 2004, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. The collected samples will return to Earth in the SRC to be jettisoned as it swings by Earth in January 2006.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-98pc1871. NASA/KSC, 1998-12-07. Public domain. ID: KSC-98pc1871.
