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Evan Gough

50 years later, NASA is finally opening a critical cache of Moon rocks


NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon brought back about 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of samples, including rocks, rock cores, rock, pebbles, sand, and dust. Scientists have studied many of those samples intently over the decades and learned a lot. But they haven’t studied all of the samples.

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