<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a55b866-f505-4ef9-92a9-723498b01543/EAB929FE-AE60-4F8D-9BC9-746E49F0A353/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090705.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090705.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090705.html">A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert in 2004 after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. No <A href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SFafter1940.html">space aliens</A> were involved, however.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090705.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/4B4C236F-97D7-4B8C-9FEA-621AFB5FEE2F" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090705.html">The saucer, <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/multimedia/genesisrecov090804-2.html">pictured above</A>, was the Genesis sample return capsule, part of a human-made robot <A href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=635">Genesis spaceship</A> launched in 2001 by NASA itself to study the Sun. The unexpectedly <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2H-UkMBZ68">hard landing</A> at over 300 kilometers per hour occurred because the parachutes did not open as planned. The <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)">Genesis mission</A> had been orbiting the <A href="http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html">Sun</A> collecting <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970217.html">solar wind</A> particles that are usually deflected away by <A href="http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/earth/magnetic.html">Earth's magnetic field</A>. Despite the crash landing, many return samples remained in good enough condition to analyze and research is <A href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009LPI....40.1373B">ongoing</A>. So far, discoveries include new details about the <A href="http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/gm2/news/features/closer.htm">composition</A> of the <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070624.html">Sun</A> and the <A href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009NIMPB.267.1101C">effects of the solar wind on unprotected material</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAB929FE-AE60-4F8D-9BC9-746E49F0A353/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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