moon rocks
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‘Young’ Moon Rocks Bring Us One Step Closer to Understanding What Goes On In Space
Last year, the China National Space Administration set out on a mission to bring chunks of the Moon back to Earth for the first time in decades. The mission was successful and researchers from Western Australia’s Curtin University were lucky enough to get their hands on some of the haul. What they found was the…
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Unopened Lunar Samples From Apollo Missions Will Finally Be Studied
During the Apollo missions, NASA smartly set aside some lunar materials knowing future scientists would likely be better equipped to analyse them. Now, nearly 50 years later, the space agency is giving a select group of researchers the extraordinary opportunity to study these unopened and untarnished samples.