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The Genesis Space Probe as a Platform for Materials Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Charles C. Hays
Charles C. Hays*
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering and Applied Science California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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Abstract

NASA's Genesis mission provides an interesting opportunity for educational outreach in a wide variety of materials related disciplines. This mission is one the Discovery planetary exploration series, and its purpose is to return to earth quantitative data regarding the composition of the Sun's solar wind. In doing so, the mission requires a number of materials technology platforms that provide examples of how fundamental questions in science might be answered. Specifically, the Genesis mission provides an educational pathway showing how experiment design and the process of materials selection are combined to realize evidence that will increase our understanding of the cosmological transition from solar nebula to planetary bodies.

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