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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.

3 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The Logic of Withdrawal by lurker412 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Jeeze, this is about as off-topic as the predictable SCO jokes because the samples will be landing in Utah.

    Regardless of politics, posting this here is nothing more than spam. Some of us are lefties, but all of us hate spam.

  2. Re:The Logic of Withdrawal by MikeDawg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ummm. . . Maybe they should land in New York instead? No, if you're not familiar with Utah, S. Utah, and S/W Utah is just pretty barren desert, the military has a weapons range on the West side of Utah (central all the way down to southern Utah). And it would make for excellent location to land/crashland a device, and who knows, if it has some crazy funky radiation, people would be a little bit safe, considering that it is a barren military weapon bombing spot.

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  3. Re:Meanwhile, here on earth.... by Guppy06 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Thousands died while science looked to the stars."

    Earthquakes don't happen in space.