Comet Dust: Fire and Ice.

Posted by Alex in Science & Tech on March 13, 2006 at 8:26 pm


NASA scientists "fire and ice" in samples brought back by the Stardust mission.

"Remarkably enough, we have found fire and ice," said Don Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomer who is the mission’s principal scientist.

"We have found samples in the coldest part of the solar system. We found samples that have formed at an extremely high temperatures. So the hottest samples that formed at an extremely cold place."

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