The Apollo 17 moon rocks came to Earth in December 1972.
"We started this in early 2018, and there's been a lot of technical challenges that we've had to overcome to get to this point," Mitchell said. She added that moving these precious and fragile samples served as a rehearsal for how to handle and move future lunar samples."This was seen as a practice run for preparing a facility for future cold sample processing," Mitchell said.
"Being able to keep samples frozen will be important for Artemis as astronauts potentially return ice samples from the moon's south pole," the NASA statement reads."Everything we do involves a lot of logistics and a lot of infrastructure, but adding the cold makes it a lot harder," Ryan Zeigler, Apollo sample curator in NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division at Johnson, said in the same statement.
Once processed, the samples were split up and shipped to Goddard"in a cooler with dry ice," before being stored in a new, secure freezer, the statement said.It might seem that we've learned all there is to learn from samples collected over 50 years ago. But scientists at NASA have shared why they are so excited to explore these Apollo 17 rocks.
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