A Potential Method for Identifying Minerals in Comet Samples Using Raman Spectroscopy with a Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope
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The NASA Stardust mission to comet Wild2 returned to Earth in 2006 with an aerogel collector containing trapped cometary particles. The cometary particles were captured at a relative velocity of 6.1 km/s, creating three-dimensional (3D) tracks containing compressed aerogel, melted aerogel, fragmented cometary material, and void space [1]. Each track represents a unique hypervelocity impact event that stores information on the nature of the impact, including the state of the original impactor, in the 3D morphology and material distribution along the track.
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