Stardust
A team of Livermore Lab Scientists are dissecting specks of dust smaller than the human eye and from a place so far away, humans haven't even ventured there.

Led by John Bradley, director of the lab's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the LLNL team is part of an international group of scientists who are analysizing the dust particles that were collected and brought to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft on January 15 after it landed in the Utah desert after a seven-year mission.
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