Help Find Star Dust

The Rocket Team is full of scientists studying everything in the universe. Some of us student astronauts pitch in and help the scientists when we're not off exploring Mars.

Here is a project I worked on recently. It was pretty cool... http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

The web site says:

"The interstellar dust particles returned to Earth by the Stardust mission are the first such pristine dust particles ever collected in space, and scientists are eager to “get their hands” on them. We estimate that Stardust collected less than 100 interstellar dust particles. They are tiny-only about a micron (a millionth of a meter) in size! These miniscule particles were captured in an aerogel collector about 1,000 square centimeters in size, and in about 150 square centimeters of aluminum metal foils. Finding them is something like searching for a handful of ants on a football field while searching one 5 cm x 5 cm square at a time."

You get to use a Virtual Microscope (VM) to look for star dust. Very cool.

If you sign up, tell me about your experiences at

RamoneRocketeer -at- gmail -dot- com.