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First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet
NASA scientists have discovered glycine in samples returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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New Kind of Organics
A team of scientists found a new class of organics in comet dust captured from comet Wild 2 in 2004 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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Meet Ken Klaasen— SD-NExT Deputy Principal Investigator
"The greatest thrill is seeing images of places and things no one has ever seen before. ..."
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The Stardust-NExT mission offers a unique opportunity to compare particle analysis from two comets, Wild 2 and Tempel-1.
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Learn how aerogel helped capture pieces of a comet and return the comet dust to Earth.
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