Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
December 18, 2018
December 18, 2018
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued the following news release:
The area of returned sample analysis is active and growing. Several space missions have returned to Earth with extraterrestrial samples, and more than 50,000 named meteorites have been collected from around the world. In addition, NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 missions will return samples from asteroids, and sample return missions to a comet surface, the mo . . .
The area of returned sample analysis is active and growing. Several space missions have returned to Earth with extraterrestrial samples, and more than 50,000 named meteorites have been collected from around the world. In addition, NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 missions will return samples from asteroids, and sample return missions to a comet surface, the mo . . .