Stardust@Home Invited citizen scientists to participate in the search for evidence of interstellar dust in the aerogel and aluminum foil collectors returned by the Stardust mission in 2006. Volunteers used an online virtual microscope to search digital imagery of the aerogel and scanning electron microscope images of the aluminum foils.
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