ByDavid Bressan,
Senior Contributor.
When astronauts returned from NASA’s final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, they brought back about 110.5 kilograms (243 pounds) of lunar rocks and core samples, the largest sample haul of any Apollo mission (maybe helped by the fact that one of the astronauts — Harrison H. Schmitt — was a geologist).
Some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced equipment might analyze them and make new discoveries.
Now, a research team led by geochemist James Dottin, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University, has done just that.
