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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Запуск Star Dust http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1163204/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Stardust Mission Team,
NASA
Explanation:
NASA launches
powerful rockets. One such rocket, the
Delta II,
recently lofted the
STARDUST mission into the
nearby Solar System.
STARDUST is expected to photograph
Comet Wild in 2004 as it zooms by, and return
interstellar dust
samples to Earth in 2006.
Currently,
much remains unknown about the size distribution,
primordial composition, and even shapes of these
dust grains.
Above, a side-mounted camera photographed the
separation of the
solid rocket boosters
above the receding Earth.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.