OTD in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Today, in 2023, you are still not allowed to touch the moon rocks.
Based on the amount of water in the beads, the researchers estimated that the magma beneath the moon’s crust could have had up to 750 parts per million water. Then later studies found water in the moon’s deeper mantle, perhaps as much as Earth’s: tens to hundreds of parts per million, planetary scientist Francis McCubbin of NASA Johnson said in March at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.
Curation involves more than just three sets of gloves. Processors maintain a detailed database of every sample ever taken from the moon, plus every chip and slice that was ever divided from the original sample. These specialists photograph and record the mass of every subsample before filing it away in a vault, behind the same kind of door that protects the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox. The processors even maintain the north-south and up-down orientation that the rocks had on the moon.
Lunar sample processor Andrea Mosie wears three pairs of gloves, the outermost of which is Teflon, to handle a moon rock . Shown at right in 1976, Mosie has been at NASA’s pristine sample lab in Houston for 43 years.Mosie trained Krysher, Costello and other processors who joined the lab. “She’s our moon goddess,” Krysher jokes. Krysher started in the lunar lab about five years ago, after spending the better part of a decade as an aerospace engineer.
“Over the years, the scientists have been able to do more with a lot less,” Krysher says. That’s why so much of the collection is still pristine. For the curators, “that excitement lasts forever,” Mosie tells me. “Every time you handle a sample, you … realize that you’re one of the few who will ever be doing this.… That’s a special opportunity, and it’s an awesome responsibility.”
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