NASA finally opened 50-year-old Apollo moon rock sample as agency eyes human return to lunar surface

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NASA finally opened 50-year-old Apollo moon rock sample as agency eyes human return to lunar surface
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collected in the Taurus-Littrow Valley within Mare Serenitatis was open for analysis. Scientists hope this sample will help with preparation of the Artemis moon program, which plans to land astronauts on the moon later in the 2020s.Apollo 17 core sample 73001 was held aside as part of the agency's Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis Program.

One big pivot from the science of nearly two generations ago was the definitive confirmation of water on the moon's surface in 2008, using observations gathered by a NASA instrument aboard the Indian spacecraft. The Artemis missions focus on the lunar south pole, where subsurface water ice appears to be particularly plentiful; would-be explorers hope to use it to meet needs for water and oxygen on the moon.The fresh sample, 73001, is the lower half of a core sample. The upper half, dubbed 73002, was returned from the moon inside a normal, unsealed container and was opened in 2019.

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