Don Brownlee
Don Brownlee
aided blown entire eye high particle
You can't see them with the unaided eye (but) with the aided eye (through a microscope) you can see everything. A little particle blown up to high magnification is like working on an entire state! It's amazing.
imaging
The imaging was a bonus, but boy, what a bonus.
built engineers seemed
All the engineers who built it seemed to be happy. It's very strong.
believe best beyond bodies collecting comet formed major mission planets preserved reason samples solar system
The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best preserved samples of the formation of our solar system and they are preserved because they formed these comet bodies beyond the major planets out beyond Neptune.
return risk simplest stardust
The capsule's return is probably the simplest of all the things Stardust has done and has the least risk. Nonetheless, it has to work.