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Feb 4, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
During the Apollo program, astronauts hammered and drilled tubes into the Moon's surface to pull out soil buried down to 2 ft (70 cm) below. This sample was collected during #Apollo14. Astronaut Al Shepard took this “locator” of the Geology In 1972, #Apollo17 astronauts drove tubes into the lunar surface to reach deeper for Moon soil. Some of these samples were vacuum-sealed on the spot, delivered to @NASA_Johnson, and unopened until 2019. A view of a pristine Apollo lunar sample at NASA's Johnson S