Month: October 2019

NASA Gives Scientist a Small Mass of Moon Dirt to Study on

Moon Dirt

Researchers in NASA had a very special gift last Christmas Season which was a mass of moon soil from Apollo to study this year.
Last summer of 2019, NASA had their 50th anniversary of the “historic Apollo 11 mission” that successfully landed astronauts on the moon in the year 1969. The program Apollo had history of landings carrying 6 humans between the years 1969 and 1972, where astronauts were able to gain 382 kg of rocks as well as moon soil. Presently, scientists can study these samples from the moon in more detail with our advances in technology.
According to NASA, the fresh Apollo samples given last …