The Stardust project has delivered to the international science community material that has been unaltered since the formation of our solar system.
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There's been this controversy over whether comets are dirty snowballs or icy dirtballs.
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It is a competitive world and NASA has a lot of thinks on its plate. It will be interesting to see if it Stardust spacecraft does have a life.
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We sang our spacecraft to sleep today with a melody of digital ones and zeros. Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years and 2.88 billion miles, and deserves a rest for a while, like the rest of the team.
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The science that's going to come out of this, that's going to tell us about the early formation of our solar system, the role that comets have played in the formation of Earth and ourselves, that will unfold over the next few years. The science that this project is returning will be unprecedented.
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