Later this month, the Genesis spacecraft will arrive into orbit around its destination, Lagrange 1, and its science mission will begin. The current plan is for Genesis to collect up to 26 months worth of solar wind particles, according to Chet Sasaki, Genesis project manager at JPL.

Following arrival into orbit around the Lagrange 1 point on November 16, Genesis will deploy its collector arrays in early December and begin collecting particles of the solar wind that will imbed themselves in specially designed high purity wafers.

More information is available at the Genesis web site.

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