print email comment close Genesis: Search for Origins URL: http://www.genesismission.org Description: Background information about the NASA mission to collect "samples of the solar wind, material flowing outward from the Sun. Comparing them with known compositions of the planets will help in the effort to understand our cosmic origins." Features images, video clips, classroom activities, and fact sheets. Includes news about the sample return capsule, which crashed to Earth before its expected return in September 2004. Publisher: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Library of Congress Subject Headings: Interstellar matter Solar system -- Origin Solar wind Space flight LII Database Information: Record 13553 created by Jennifer English on 09/08/2004 Last modification on 09/08/2004 Published: 09/08/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13553