Lunar sample tells ancient story with help of Curtin's world-class facilities
Date Time Lunar sample tells ancient story with help of Curtin’s world-class facilities Curtin University researchers have helped uncover the four billion year old story of a lunar sample brought from the Moon to Earth, by the manned Apollo 17 mission more than 50 years ago. Apollo 17 Mission: NASA/ Gene Cernan The global research collaboration, involving scientists from the UK, Canada, Sweden and Australia, aimed to analyse the ancient rock sample through a modern lens to find out its age, which crater it came from and its geological trajectory. That modern lens was provided, in part, by b...