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Could someone more knowledgeable than me edit the article to mention the recent discovery of amino acids in the returned samples (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17628]?
Please date and name the articles or references.
I was going to add it to here, but I'm going to create a separate page "List of Stardust Microchip Names", listing the names that were attached to the Stardust spacecraft (see http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/faq.html ). Nick04 18:08, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The German article has a lot of extra information on the spacecraft and its mission that could be brought in here. -Wikibob | Talk 2005 July 2 08:02 (UTC)
According to our article, "... the rest of the spacecraft is destroyed in the atmosphere." but according to NASA, "the STARDUST spacecraft ... will continue to orbit the Sun after the mission." [1] Are these two quotes talking about different parts of the spacecraft? If not, our article is probably wrong. -SCEhardt 04:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
What precautions are being taken to avoid cross-contamination between the sample and Earth's atmosphere? Did the sample container maintain an airtight seal during its crash-landing? Or has NASA lost its legendary over-cautiousness? -Kasreyn 20:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I removed a reference to EST, leaving only the UTC date and time of the event. Mainly because it is more "neutral", but also because quoting the local time on the east coast of North America for an event that occurred near the west coast looks strange... mdf 21:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Why does it specify this is interplanetary (first line) if it's not visiting any planets?
Stardust (spacecraft)#Aerogel sample collectors To analyse the aerogel for interstellar dust, about one million photographs will be taken
Stardust@home Update : Scanning, Testing, and Calibration Movies
According to the original plan, 1.6 million "movies" would have been needed to scan the entire surface of the aerogel collector. In practice, however, the CCD camera taking the pictures of the aerogel at the Stardust@home lab at JSC is larger than the one initially planned for the job and takes pictures of larger aerogel segments. This means that it now takes about 5,500 movies to cover each aerogel tile, and the total number of movies needed to cover the entire collector is just over 700,000.
I'd Make The edit myself but it's not a simple as changing "one million photographs" to "just over 700,000 focus movies"
focusmovie Focus Movie A stack of images taken from a single field of view of the automated microscope at several different focus depths. Each image can be thought of as a frame in a movie; running the movie forward and simulates looking throgh a microsope and turning the focus knob.
[2] And there are 40 pictures in each Focus in the tutorial
So does that make a little over 2,800,000 pictures but the estimate was lowered not raised? And then are you going to count the numerous mess-ups in making the Focus movies in the final number?
also
The article says
The collector tray contains ninety blocks of aerogel in a metal grid
The site says
Eight out of the 130 aerogel tiles have already been scanned
and What about those 2 titular pockets I042 and I075 aren’t there 132 tiles? They are numbered.
I already made the changes to Stardust@home [3] but can somebody double check me.--E-Bod 20:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
The Simple solution is 130 is the Official count and 132 is WP:OR so we go with the 130 count.--E-Bod 20:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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I just got rid of it. -84user (talk) 04:32, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
The "Sample processing" section contains this"
"limited pure carbon (CHON) was also found in the samples returned"
What is pure carbon? The CHON article that is linked to does not contain this term. If pure carbon is meant to mean pure carbon in the normal sense, i.e. something which consists only of carbon, then the term seems to be in contradiction to the parenthetical CHON.Davefoc (talk) 17:09, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Section "Sample processing" has an aerogel image with alt text caption that seems to be ambiguous with the image file's description at Commons:
Caption in article:
Visible dust grains in the aerogel collector.
Caption of image at Commons:
NASA photo of aerogel under test during pre-launch Stardust Mission.
I'm not sure if the article caption implies that it's dust from "the" actual return trip (i.e. not "pre-launch"), or if the image is only of a general test to capture dust in aerogel. Maybe it's obvious to others, but is there a way I can clarify it? Zeniff (talk) 19:27, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
So is the fact that the chute failed and it crash-landed a shameful dirty secret or what? People (i.e., me) want to know if the sample container was cracked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdana Bold (talk • contribs) 02:15, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
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