Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the Moon
Written by Copernical Team Thursday, 16 December 2021 21:17
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A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take place – a piercing tool built by ESA will open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases which may have been preserved in the sample.