Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the moon

A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take placeā€”a piercing tool built by ESA will open a moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases which may have been preserved in the sample.


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Source: Phys.org