BBC News | In pictures: Stardust grabs comet material, Sample return

Sample return

Having passed Comet Wild-2, Stardust took a further two years to return to Earth.

On 15 January 2006, a parachute set the sample capsule on to the salt flats of the Utah desert.

Scientists retrieved the samples and sent them to laboratories around the world for analysis.


�In pictures:�Stardust grabs comet material

	Sample return Having passed Comet Wild-2, Stardust took a further two years to return to Earth. On 15 January 2006, a parachute set the sample capsule on to the salt flats of the Utah desert. Scientists retrieved the samples and sent them to laboratories around the world for analysis.