[00:07.21]NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully deployed a device that will collect extremely small particles in space.
[00:16.95]The particles are called dust.
[00:19.72]They form a stream of particles that flows through our solar system.
[00:24.82]The special device will collect the particles until May 25.
[00:30.22]After that,the collection device will be returned inside the spacecraft.
[00:36.13]The collection device will remain inside Stardust until 2002 when it will again deploy the device and continue collecting the particles.
[00:47.54]The device Stardust deployed will also be used to collect dust from a comet named Wild-2.
[00:57.00]Wild-2 will pass near the spacecraft in 2004.
[01:03.43]The Stardust spacecraft was launched in February,1999. |