NASA Looking for Internet Volunteers to Study Stardust

NASA is looking for volunteers to spend about 30,000 hours looking at minuscule particles on a web-based microscope to identify traces of interstellar dust collected by the ‘Stardust’ spacecraft, expected to return to Earth on Sunday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday it would enlist an army of internet volunteers to help in the meticulous search for rare grains of ’submicroscopic dust’ that was collected along with larger grains of dust from the comet Wild 2 during the probe’s seven-year, 4.5 billion kilometre journey.

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