A few weeks after their return to Earth, several Apollo 17 regolith sample splits and one Apollo 17 basalt were frozen at -20˚C (under dry gaseous N2 like all other pristine Apollo samples), and have remained essentially unstudied within the Apollo sample collection at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). As part of the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) project, these frozen samples were selected for consortium study in 2019. Although the samples themselves were kept at -20˚C for nearly 50 years, the JSC Curation office has lacked a facility for processing frozen samples under pristine Apollo processing conditions. A temporary lab for this work was designed, built, and tested. Procedures were then developed for working in this unique environment, and the facility was sucessfully used to process the frozen Apollo samples for scientific allocation.


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    Title :

    Processing Frozen Apollo Samples in a Nitrogen Environment


    Contributors:
    J. J. Kent (author) / R. A. Zeigler (author) / J. L. Mitchell (author) / C. L. Amick (author) / E. K. Lewis (author) / J. Gross (author) / F. M. McCubbin (author) / A. B. Mosie (author)

    Publication date :

    2022


    Size :

    1 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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