NASA, Sample collected 50 years ago during the Apollo mission to learn more about the Moon and use the results for new missions, vacuumed and sealed in our natural satellite, preserved until now He opens his tube.
The 50-year-old Moon sample will shed light on future missions
It is stated that the reason why NASA keeps these sealed samples is to protect them in order to be able to conduct investigations for different needs in future generations with the development of research technologies. The sample taken by the Apollo 17 mission will be exactly 50 years old in December this year.
NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen, emphasizing that 50-year-old samples will help with future missions: “Understanding the geological history and evolution of the Moon samples at the Apollo landing sites, Artemis It will help us prepare for the types of examples that may be encountered during Artemis aims to bring back cold, sealed samples from near the Moon’s South Pole. “This is an exciting learning opportunity for future generations of scientists to understand the tools needed to collect and transport these samples, analyze them, and store them on Earth.”
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The process of carefully opening the sample has begun. Scientists will first pierce the sample tube and
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