The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmic dust particles for return to Earth. During this process, impact tracks are generated along the trajectory of the particle into the aerogel. It is believed that the morphology and dimensions of these tracks, together with the state of captured grains at track termini, may be linked to the size, velocity, and density of the impacting cosmic dust grain. Here, we present the results of laboratory hypervelocity impact experiments, during which cosmic dust analog particles (diameters of between 0.2 and 0.4 mu m), composed of olivine, orthopyroxene, or an organic polymer, were accelerated onto Stardust flight-spare low-density (approximately 0.01 ...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm(2) of aerogel collectors of ...
Metallic aluminum alloy foils exposed oil the forward, comet-facing surface of the aerogel tray oil ...
We briefly summarise our ongoing efforts to evaluate the success of cometary particle capture by NAS...
The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmi...
The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmi...
The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmi...
Aerogel is an ultra-low-density material that can be used to capture small particles incident upon i...
On the basis of an interstellar dust model compatible with Ulysses and Galileo observations, we calc...
On the basis of an interstellar dust model compatible with Ulysses and Galileo observations, we calc...
On the basis of an interstellar dust model compatible with Ulysses and Galileo observations, we calc...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm(2) of aerogel collectors of ...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm$^{2}$ of aerogel collectors ...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm(2) of aerogel collectors of ...
Metallic aluminum alloy foils exposed oil the forward, comet-facing surface of the aerogel tray oil ...
We briefly summarise our ongoing efforts to evaluate the success of cometary particle capture by NAS...
The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmi...
The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmi...
The NASA Stardust mission used silica aerogel slabs to slowly decelerate and capture impinging cosmi...
Aerogel is an ultra-low-density material that can be used to capture small particles incident upon i...
On the basis of an interstellar dust model compatible with Ulysses and Galileo observations, we calc...
On the basis of an interstellar dust model compatible with Ulysses and Galileo observations, we calc...
On the basis of an interstellar dust model compatible with Ulysses and Galileo observations, we calc...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm(2) of aerogel collectors of ...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm$^{2}$ of aerogel collectors ...
Here, we report the identification of 69 tracks in approximately 250 cm(2) of aerogel collectors of ...
Metallic aluminum alloy foils exposed oil the forward, comet-facing surface of the aerogel tray oil ...
We briefly summarise our ongoing efforts to evaluate the success of cometary particle capture by NAS...