{"id":16538,"date":"2019-03-15T19:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/?page_id=16538"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:44:42","slug":"stardust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/en\/planets-stars-universe\/solar-system-and-beyond\/stardust\/","title":{"rendered":"STARDUST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Subject line<\/strong>: Minor bodies of the Solar System<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Responsibility of the mission<\/strong>: NASA<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Date of launch<\/strong>: February 7<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, 1999<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>End of mission<\/strong>: March 24<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, 2011<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Description<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stardust.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stardust<\/a> is the fourth mission of the NASA Discovery programme, and the first mission whose only focus is on exploring a comet: Wild 2. The mission departed in February 1999 from Cape Canaveral with a Delta II vector rocket and following a four-year journey \u2013 during which the probe performed a flyby of the 5535 Annefrank asteroid at a 3300 km distance \u2013 on January 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, 2004 STARDUST reached the Wild2 Comet. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The mission completed its first cycle of observation and collection of samples in 2006, but it was extended in 2011 with the purpose of studying the Comet Tempel 1, previously observed in the Deep Impact mission. The encounter with the celestial body happened of February 14<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, 2011 and the mission ended on March 24<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, 2011, when the probe ran out of fuel. <\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Scientific goals<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The primary goal of the mission was to collect and analyse samples of carbon dust coming from the comet Wild 2, by using a special material with extremely low density known as aerogel, similar to a big tennis racket. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">STARDUST brought back to Earth samples of interstellar dust and fragments of dust coming from outside our Solar System, which are useful to study the evolution of the Sun and the other planets of the Solar System. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject line: Minor bodies of the Solar System Responsibility of the mission: NASA Date of launch: February 7th, 1999 End of mission: March 24th, 2011 &nbsp; Description Stardust is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2572,"parent":16481,"menu_order":547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16538","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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