Example of extraterrestrial material that may be analysed in SAL (IMAGE)

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Example of extraterrestrial material that may be analysed in SAL

Caption

An example of extra-terrestrial material that will be analysed in SAL: the little glass vial is containing about 45 mg of lunar soil (regolith) returned to Earth in 1976 by the robotic soviet mission to the Moon Luna 24.

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DLR

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