FALLEN STAR.

The article presents information about a how a chute deployment failure an National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Genesis probe leaves the century's supply of Sun samples shattered. Scientists who had hoped to learn about the evolution of the Solar System from the two-salt-grains' worth of solar samples housed in NASA's Genesis probe will have to content themselves with what they can glean from the spacecraft's shattered remains in the weeks and months ahead. Genesis scientists were hopeful the solar wind particles collected "an atom at a time" at the Earth-Sun Lagrangian point in the past 26 months could be retrieved from the sample collectors inside the shattered capsule.