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New Scientist: 'Pinch of comet dust lands safely on Earth'

An article on the New Scientist's website reports on the return to Earth of the NASA Stardust spacecraft after a seven-year journey with a pinch of dust harvested from a comet. 'NASA is celebrating the safe return to Earth of a pinch of dust harvested from a comet. On Sunday morning, after a seven-year journey, its Stardust spacecraft dropped a capsule containing comet dust into the Earth’s atmosphere and it landed gently in the Utah desert in the US.The textbook landing was greeted by whoops of delight from mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “It’s one of those moments in life which is almost so fantastic you can’t describe it,” said Ken Atkins, former project manager for Stardust at JPL.'
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Source: New Scientist

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