Genesis sample recovery nearly complete, NASA says

NASA's Genesis science team is nearly finished recovering the solar wind samples contained in the Genesis sample recovery capsule, which crashed to Earth Sept. 8 when its parachute failed to deploy. Genesis spent two years in space capturing solar wind particles on delicate wafers or foils made of...

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