WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the ...
Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts close to a ...
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The Apollo 17 Moon Samples Were Sealed Away For Over 50 Years. Now, Scientists Have Opened Them
When the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned to Earth in December 1972, they brought with them samples of a particularly interesting area of the Moon. Those samples were deliberately ...
More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...
A sample of lunar rock returned from a crater on the far side of the Moon by China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft is helping astronomers understand why the 2 faces of our closest celestial neighbour are so ...
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