The Genesis probe is returning, the world is watching, two stunt helicopter pilots are standing by.
All systems are go," Don Sevilla, Genesis payload recovery leader, said Tuesday when the capsule was 134,000 miles above the Earth's surface. If all goes as planned, the mid-air capture was to take place Wednesday.
The capsule's charged atoms — a "billion billion" of them — should reveal clues about the origin and evolution of our solar system, said Don Burnett, Genesis principal
investigator and a nuclear geochemist at California Institute of Technology."We have for years wanted to know the composition of the sun," Burnett said. "In some cases we will be analyzing it one atom at a time."
- Art Neuro
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