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Zoom In On The Names

The names that were received during the first collection for the microchip, have been placed on the Stardust spacecraft.

This image below, magnified 6,500 times through a microscope, shows an actual photograph of a portion of the names, as they actually appear on the microchip.


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There are over 136,000 names on the chip.


 

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