New Scientist reports that NASA's genesis spacecraft is all set to return to Earth after completing it's mission of collecting samples of high-energy ions from the Solar wind.
The mission is intended to shed light on the formation of the Solar System nearly five billion years ago by revealing the Sun's composition. Its quarry will be the first material ever returned to Earth from beyond the Moon when it drops to Earth in September 2004.
An earlier article can be read here.
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