 Peter Tsou with a sample of aerogel Peter Tsou is a principal science staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked for the past 27 years. [1] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (898x900, 502 KB) Aerogel & Peter Tsou, JPL Scientist Description: Aerogel cube & Peter Tsou, JPL Scientist, Stardust Deputy Principal Investigator Source: NASA Stardust Website http://stardust. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (898x900, 502 KB) Aerogel & Peter Tsou, JPL Scientist Description: Aerogel cube & Peter Tsou, JPL Scientist, Stardust Deputy Principal Investigator Source: NASA Stardust Website http://stardust. ...
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The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA, builds and operates unmanned spacecraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ...
The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ...
Academic achievements Tsou was educated at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Bachelor of Science and Master's degree, and earned his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles. [1] The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...
A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ...
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The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. ...
Research His research interests for the past two decades have concentrated on achieving a sample return of cometary coma material. He invented the technique of intact capture of hypervelocity particles for just such a mission as Stardust, the 13th proposal for a comet flyby sample return mission. Working with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he made the aerogel material lighter and more suitable for catching the comet particles. [2] He has also introduced the use of aerogel as one of the capture media and flight qualified variable density aerogel for space flight. An artists rendering of Stardust (NASA image) The Stardust capsule with cometary and interstellar samples landed at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range at 10:10 UTC (15 January 2006) in the Bonneville Salt Flats. ...
A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comets nucleus, which itself is a minor body composed of rock, dust...
Aerial view of the lab and surrounding area. ...
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A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comets nucleus, which itself is a minor body composed of rock, dust...
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He is the PI for a series of Shuttle Sample Return Experiments and Mir Sample Return Experiment with silica aerogel he made at JPL. He continues to develop improved techniques to identify, remove and study particles captured in aerogel. Mir (Мир, which can mean both world and peace in Russian) was a highly successful Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station. ...
Quotes - “It's a perfect landing [...] we are jumping and applauding. I can hardly sleep. Nevertheless I had been waiting 25 years before this night.” (Concerning the Stardust project) [citation needed]
- “It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pristine state 4.5 billion years ago.” (Concerning the Stardust project) [citation needed]
The Sun is the star of our solar system. ...
References - ^ a b Bios - Dr. Peter Tsou. NASA. Retrieved on 2006-05-11.
- ^ Irion, Robert. "To Catch a Comet", Discover, 2003, October.
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