Employing the philosophy that "Small is Beautiful", NASA has been collecting and curating microscopic astromaterials since 1981. These active collections now include interplanetary dust collected in Earth's stratosphere by U-2, ER-2 and WB-57F aircraft (the Cosmic Dust Program - our motto is "Gathering dust since 1981"), comet Wild-2 coma dust (the Stardust Mission), modern interstellar dust (also the Stardust Mission), asteroid Itokawa regolith dust (the Hayabusa Mission - joint curation with JAXA-ISAS), and interplanetary dust impact features on recovered portions of the following spacecraft: Skylab, the Solar Maximum Satellite, the Palapa Satellite, the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), the MIR Space Station, the International Space Station, and the Hubble Space Telescope (all in the Space Exposed Hardware Laboratory).


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    Title :

    Curation of Microscopic Astromaterials by NASA: "Gathering Dust Since 1981"


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2013 Meteoritical Society Meeting ; 2013 ; Edmonton, Canada


    Publication date :

    2013-07-29


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English