We have recently added two exciting tiles to our database of focus movies. These tiles were not a part of Phase 1 or Phase 2 and have not been dusted online before. They are special to us because they are the the first tiles that we have scanned here at […]
Downtime will be Wednesday, November 10, 2010 starting a 1pm PST. We need to do some server software updates, it will take about an hour to do this. Thanks, Stardust@home Admins
At the 2010 Meteoritical Society Conference in New York, we reported on the further analysis of track 30 (Orion and Sirius), and reported the exciting discovery of two more promising interstellar dust candidates, tracks 34 and 37. Track 30 was analyzed by Alex Simionovici, Laurence Lemelle, and colleagues on beamline […]
On September 7th, 2010 (new date) the Space Sciences Lab network connection to the world will be operating on a very slow backup connection (the campus will be doing cable infrastructure upgrades). They are planning to be on the backup connection for the entire day. We don’t really know how […]
Sorry for the long delay, but we have finally gotten the phase three certificates online. Enjoy! Kudos to our good friends at The Planetary Society for the lovely artwork! In other news we have trained the virtual microscope “autoscan” feature to remember, from movie to movie, if you want to […]
We’ll be moving the Stardust@home servers from one location to another on Tuesday July 6th. They currently live near the clean room here at Berkeley and the clean room is being reconfigured. We’ll be offline for a few hours starting around 9am PDT (We don’t really know how long the […]
We have just completed uploading 10 tiles of new data, or about 40,000 focus movies. Two tiles are all new, never before seen scan data. We tried twice to scan them in the Collector in Phase 1, but didn’t get them in focus. Dave Frank at JSC added fiducials, extracted tiles […]
Many of you have noticed that we have been serving up older, Phase I movies for a few days. Although we know that this may have been frustrating to see familiar movies, it was important, to be sure that we were not missing some “midnight” tracks in the Phase I […]
Stardust at home will be off line on Thursday May 20th starting 5pm PST and we’ll return on Friday morning, the 21st of May. The Space Sciences Laboratory will have yet another power outage. We have also changed the blogging software so you may see some issues around that. Thanks, […]
All dusters are familiar with the words that appear when starting a dusting session: “Expect the unexpected.” The unexpected has certainly happened. We are cautiously excited about an interstellar dust candidate, named Orion by its discoverer, Bruce Hudson from Ontario, Canada. This particle is a so-called “midnight” track, because of […]