Dust in the Wind (Solar that is)
"Dust" is usually something we are trying to to get rid of. Or use in a song about nothingness or meaningless. But if you talk gold dust or diamond dust, the context gets more interesting
But today, it's stuff much more precious that gold or diamonds. The Stardust space capsule landed safely today bringing comet dust - dust that any scientist would be ecstatic to have littering their labs. The mission took 7 years and traveled nearly 3 billion years to get a smidgen of comet dust.
Hopefully, there will be plenty of grains of dust from the beginning of our solar system to keep scientist busy for awhile.
Too bad the capsule came down in Utah and not Kansas...
But today, it's stuff much more precious that gold or diamonds. The Stardust space capsule landed safely today bringing comet dust - dust that any scientist would be ecstatic to have littering their labs. The mission took 7 years and traveled nearly 3 billion years to get a smidgen of comet dust.
Hopefully, there will be plenty of grains of dust from the beginning of our solar system to keep scientist busy for awhile.
Too bad the capsule came down in Utah and not Kansas...
