Genesis spacecraft begins to collect solar wind samples
NASA's Genesis mission has extended its solar arrays to begin collecting atoms from the solar wind, the aerospace agency announced Dec. 3. The spacecraft will collect ion particles flowing from the outer layer of the sun, material believed to be from the original solar nebula from which the sun and...
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