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Stardust@Home is a citizen-science project launched in 2006 by researchers associated with the University of California, Berkeley, to help examine material returned by NASA's Stardust mission. Volunteers use an online Virtual Microscope to inspect focus movies made from microscope images of aerogel and scan images of aluminum foil collectors. Their task is to identify tracks that may indicate interstellar dust particles, allowing members of the public to assist with a specialized astronomical search.
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What is Stardust@Home?
Stardust@Home is a citizen-science project launched in 2006 by researchers associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Volunteers help inspect material returned by NASA's Stardust mission.
What do volunteers do in Stardust@Home?
They use an online Virtual Microscope to inspect focus movies made from microscope scans. The goal is to look for tiny particles in the returned material.
Which NASA mission supplied the material for Stardust@Home?
The project examines material returned by NASA's Stardust mission. Stardust collected samples during its space mission and brought them back for analysis.
Why does Stardust@Home use citizen scientists?
The project turns detailed microscope inspection into a distributed task that many volunteers can perform online. Their searches help researchers examine a large number of image sequences for possible particles.
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