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Stardust Image of Asteroid Annefrank
This composite image shows the three small worlds NASA Stardust spacecraft encountered during its 12 year mission....
Artist rendering of NASA’s Stardust returning to Earth. Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated to the...
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral...
This image shows the return capsule inside a protective covering. The capsule, which landed at 2:10 a.m. Pacific...
Stardust Capsule Return as seen from NASA DC-8 Airborne Laboratory with a mission to explore the conditions during...
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust spacecraft. The spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral...
This image was taken during the close approach phase of NASA Stardust Jan 2, 2004 flyby of comet Wild 2. It is a...
This animation illustrates the orbit path of NASA Stardust spacecraft.
The aerogel dust collector, an instrument aboard NASA Stardust spacecraft.
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of...
Artist rendering of NASA Stardust capsule returning to Earth. The Stardust spacecraft will bring back samples of...
The capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by NASA Stardust spacecraft.
Inside Space Exposed Hardware Lab a member of the JSC Curation Team with NASA Stardust canister in lab.
The capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by NASA Stardust spacecraft. Here, the capsule is...
Tim Larson, Stardust NExT Project Manager, speaks during a news briefing, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, at NASA...
This image shows a comet particle collected by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. The particle is made up of the silicate...
Pete Schultz, Stardust NExT co-investigator, from Brown University, speaks during a news briefing, Wednesday, Jan....
Joe Ververka, Stardust NExT Principal Investigator, from Cornell University, speaks during a news briefing,...
Steve Chesley, Stardust NExT co-investigator, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, holds up a model of Comet Tempel 1...
Stereo image pair of comet Wild 2 as seen by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA...
This animation illustrates the path the Stardust return capsule will follow once it enters Earth atmosphere.
Closeup view of a cometary impact upper right into aerogel was inspected by scientists at a laboratory at the...
This image shows the tracks left by two comet particles after they impacted NASA Stardust spacecraft comet dust...