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Stardust Apparently Successful

Posted by michael on from the three-years-till-we-really-find-out dept.

Naomi_the_butterfly writes "The Stardust mission, a craft launched in February 1999, just concluded its encounter with comet Wild 2 at 11:40:35 am PST. The encounter went without a hitch, with about 72 images taken and comet coma (tail) dust collected! The first images will be downloaded to JPL over between 1:30 and 2:30 pm, in time for a press conference at 3:00 pm PST. Today a comet, tomorrow Mars!" Space.com has a picture taken by the spacecraft.

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  1. finaly!! by crabpeople · · Score: 5, Informative

    why use video when you can use......

    http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/040102a.gif

    ANIMATED GIFS!
    seriously thats like the longest one ive ever seen. i could only get as far as the guy in the blue shirt and the old people in congress.

    --
    I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
  2. Vietnam Memorial Names Aboard by Elonka · · Score: 5, Informative
    A little-known fact is that this probe is also carrying a chip which contains all of the names from the Vietnam War Memorial in DC.

    The idea that the names of those fallen soldiers are mixing with stardust today, has been giving me a warm fuzzy feeling. :)