Stardust survives solar flare hit
STARDUST, a NASA spacecraft designed to collect samples from the tail of the comet P/Wild 2 and return them to Earth in 2006, survived bombardment by high-energy protons from the powerful solar flare earlier this month, the space agency said. The spacecraft went into a safe mode when the flare hit...
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