Cosmic Dust Catalog

Since May 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used aircraft to collect cosmic dust (CD) particles from Earth's stratosphere. Specially designed dust collectors are prepared for flight and processed after flight in an ultraclean (Class-100) laboratory constructed for this purpose at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. Particles are individually retrieved from the collectors, examined and cataloged, and then made available to the scientific community for research. Cosmic dust thereby joins lunar samples and meteorites as an additional source of extraterrestrial materials for scientific study.

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identifier NASA-0000018__1
issued 2018-06-25
landingPage http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/dust/cdcat18/index.cfm
modified 2020-01-29
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publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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temporal 1981-01-01/2011-01-01
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maintainer Nancy Todd
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metadata_created 2025-11-21T03:11:56.440397
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T03:11:56.440401
notes Since May 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used aircraft to collect cosmic dust (CD) particles from Earth's stratosphere. Specially designed dust collectors are prepared for flight and processed after flight in an ultraclean (Class-100) laboratory constructed for this purpose at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. Particles are individually retrieved from the collectors, examined and cataloged, and then made available to the scientific community for research. Cosmic dust thereby joins lunar samples and meteorites as an additional source of extraterrestrial materials for scientific study.
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title Cosmic Dust Catalog