On 2 January 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at...
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July 18, 2026
In 2004 a NASA probe caught a comet's tail on a sheet of aerogel, flew the grains 4.6 billion kilometres home, and dropped them into the Utah desert — the first solid pieces of a comet ever returned to Earth
On 2 January 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres per second. A collector filled with...
On 2 January 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew through the cloud surrounding comet 81P/Wild 2 at 6.1 kilometres per second. A collector filled with...
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