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SUBMITTER: Burnett DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3228446 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burnett D S DS Team Genesis Science GS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110509 48
Science results from the Genesis Mission illustrate the major advantages of sample return missions. (i) Important results not otherwise obtainable except by analysis in terrestrial laboratories: the isotopic compositions of O, N, and noble gases differ in the Sun from other inner solar system objects. The N isotopic composition is the same as that of Jupiter. Genesis has resolved discrepancies in the noble gas data from solar wind implanted in lunar soils. (ii) The most advanced analytical instr ...[more]