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Genesis Mission to Our Solar System Genesis Mission to Sun
Genesis:
For more than two years, Genesis collected samples of the solar wind - a stream of of charged particles from the Sun - about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from Earth, a point where the Earth and Sun's gravities are balanced. The zone is called the Lagrange 1 point.

Despite a hard landing in the Utah desert, the Genesis samples were recovered from its capsule. The samples are being studied in a special lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas.

Visit the Genesis Website

   
Key Dates Headlines
8 Aug 2001: 
Launch (16:13:40 UTC)
21 Oct 2001 - 2 Apr 2004: 
Sample Collection
8 Sep 2004: 
Samples Return to Earth
8 Sep 2006: 
Samples Under Study
2008: 
End of Solar Mission
Status: 
Samples Under Study
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