We expected to have 250 samples. Now, we have 15,000 pieces to work with.
Once it gets there it opens up two covers and deploys high purity materials which are then used to collect the solar wind one atom at a time.
The really fun part of it is discovering actual answers about what solar composition is.
The chemical and isotopic composition of the sun is the starting composition from which all planets formed.
We are going to capture this re-entry capsule out of the air in a helicopter snatch. It will be very exciting thing to see.
In principle, we might be able to do everything we started out to do.
What we've been missing is a starting point. These samples allow precise measurements of the abundance of elements and isotopes in the sun.
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