Stardust scientist Donald Brownlee holds up a version of the spacecraft's sample collector packed with aerogel, the ultralight material used to capture comet dust impacting at 3.8 miles per second, during a mission briefing. Credit: Barbara Sprungman. Click to enlarge.

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