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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Stardust Aerogel
To capture cometary and interstellar dust samples, Stardust used a porous, silicon-based material called aerogel. The lightest solid ever created, aerogel has a spongelike structure that is 99 percent empty space and only slightly denser than air. The cometary particle grid (at the end of the capsule's arm) held 132 aerogel tiles. The interstellar particle grid (not included here) held 132 slightly thinner ones.
Comet Sample Return Capsule
Stardust was the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to returning extraterrestrial material from outside the Earth-Moon orbit. Its main goal was to collect samples from Comet Wild 2 and interstellar dust. Launched on February 7, 1999, Stardust flew nearly 3 billion miles before returning to Earth and parachuting to a landing in the Utah desert on January 15, 2006.
The Stardust return system has six major components: a heat shield, backshell, sample canister, sample collector grid with aerogel (shown here deployed for flight as it passed through cometary clouds and rotated 180 degrees for display with the dust impact side facing toward the viewer), parachute system, and avionics. The samples were sealed in an aluminum canister encased in an exterior shell composed of ablative materials to protect them from the heat of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Stardust made the fastest atmospheric entry of a human-made object at about 29,000 miles per hour.
Stardust also carried several other science packages that remain in space aboard the central vehicle. The sample return capsule brought back material that may date from the formation of the solar system. Those cometary and interstellar dust samples have gone to scientists worldwide, and results from their study are altering our understanding of the universe. One of the major scientific findings of the mission is that ice-rich comets also contain fragments of high temperature materials.
Transferred from NASA
Stardust
design Cristiana Giopato & Christopher Coombes
photo Ilvio Gallo
NECKLACE
Porcelain
IN023.11 White Glazed
IN023.22 Black Unglazed
Milano, april 2007
Industreal all rights reserved
Roxy Stardust - The EmCee and Burlesque performer at Temptation 2018 - UWE LGBT+ & THT Fundraiser hosted in the Queenshilling
David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust Streetart by neosandwich und Gedenktafel mit Kerzen und Blumen
in der Hauptstraße 155 in Berlin-Schöneberg
zu David Bowies 76. Geburtstag am 08.01.2023 und seinem 7. Todestag am 10.01.2023.
Streetart by @neonsandwich
Inschrift der Gedenktafel:
- In diesem Haus wohnte von 1976 - 1978
DAVID BOWIE
(8.1.1947 - 10.1.2016)
In dieser Zeit entstanden die Alben "Low", "Heroes" und "Lodger". Sie gingen als Berliner Trilogie in die Musikgeschichte ein.
"We can be heroes, just for one day" –
Die Gedenktafel wurde bereits 2016 enthüllt. Das Kunstwerk von Neonsandwich ist neu.
David Bowie (* 8. Januar 1947 als David Robert Jones in London; † 10. Januar 2016 in New York City) war ein britischer Musiker, Sänger, Produzent und Schauspieler. In seiner annähernd 50 Jahre dauernden Karriere war er mit 26 Studioalben einer der einflussreichsten Musiker der Rock- und Popmusik und mit rund 140 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern auch kommerziell sehr erfolgreich.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete, 10.01.2023
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Stardust Aerogel
To capture cometary and interstellar dust samples, Stardust used a porous, silicon-based material called aerogel. The lightest solid ever created, aerogel has a spongelike structure that is 99 percent empty space and only slightly denser than air. The cometary particle grid (at the end of the capsule's arm) held 132 aerogel tiles. The interstellar particle grid (not included here) held 132 slightly thinner ones.
Comet Sample Return Capsule
Stardust was the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to returning extraterrestrial material from outside the Earth-Moon orbit. Its main goal was to collect samples from Comet Wild 2 and interstellar dust. Launched on February 7, 1999, Stardust flew nearly 3 billion miles before returning to Earth and parachuting to a landing in the Utah desert on January 15, 2006.
The Stardust return system has six major components: a heat shield, backshell, sample canister, sample collector grid with aerogel (shown here deployed for flight as it passed through cometary clouds and rotated 180 degrees for display with the dust impact side facing toward the viewer), parachute system, and avionics. The samples were sealed in an aluminum canister encased in an exterior shell composed of ablative materials to protect them from the heat of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Stardust made the fastest atmospheric entry of a human-made object at about 29,000 miles per hour.
Stardust also carried several other science packages that remain in space aboard the central vehicle. The sample return capsule brought back material that may date from the formation of the solar system. Those cometary and interstellar dust samples have gone to scientists worldwide, and results from their study are altering our understanding of the universe. One of the major scientific findings of the mission is that ice-rich comets also contain fragments of high temperature materials.
Transferred from NASA