NASA Science Live: We Just Opened a 50-year-old Moon Sample [ Episode 42]

When Apollo astronauts began bringing samples from the Moon to Earth over 50 years ago, NASA chose to keep some samples unopened and untouched for future scientists to study. Now, NASA has opened the final pristine core sample of the Moon from the Apollo 17 mission to be studied in state-of-the-art laboratories with the most up-to-date technologies. Join NASA experts for an inside look at how decades-old Moon samples are opened and what we hope to learn.---Joy Ng, Host, NASA Goddard; Dr. Juliane Gross, Deputy Apollo Curator, NASA Johnson; Dr. Jacob Bleacher, Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA HQ; Dr. Andrea Mosie, Apollo Sample Principal Scientist, NASA Johnson