Re:Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the Moon
by imrankhan17 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @06:07PM
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Is there a reason they waited 50 years? Was it specifically to wait for new technology to analyse the sample?
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Re:Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the Moon
by realityking on Saturday December 18, 2021 @06:42PM
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Appears so. I found an article from 2019 when they opened some samples as well.
> […] NASA also made the decision to keep some samples completely untouched as an investment in the future, allowing them to be analyzed with more advanced technologies as they are developed. These include samples that remained sealed in their original containers, as well as some stored under special conditions, all intended to be opened and analyzed with more advanced analytical technologies than were available during Apollo.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-opens-previously-unopened-...