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The ANGSA team,

The ANGSA team,

led by UNM's Charles "Chip" Shearer, fourth from right, is leveraging advanced technologies to study Apollo samples using new tools that were not available when the samples were originally returned to Earth.

Charles "Chip" Shearer

Charles "Chip" Shearer

is the science co-lead for ANGSA and research scientist / professor at The University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (E&PS).

Contained rock and soil sample

Contained rock and soil sample

(right) from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17.

NASA opened a pristine Apollo lunar sample

NASA opened a pristine Apollo lunar sample

at its Johnson Space Center in Houston. A team of scientists extracted the core from its tube and will soon send samples to other teams across the country to study.

ARES team opening

ARES team opening

Apollo lunar core samples in the Lunar Curation Lab. Pictured (l. to r.): Andria Mosie, Charis Krysh and Juliane Gross

Credit: James Blair

Harrison Schmitt,

Harrison Schmitt,

Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, uses an adjustable sampling scoop to retrieve lunar samples during the second Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA), at Station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site.

NASA opens sealed Apollo sample ahead of Artemis missions

UNM's Charles "Chip" Shearer is science co-lead for ANGSA

By NASA November 06, 2019

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