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Ran Zhao M.Sc. and Audrey Bouvier (from left) in a cleanroom laboratory of the B
Ran Zhao M.Sc. and Audrey Bouvier (from left) in a cleanroom laboratory of the BGI in preparation for the investigation of extraterrestrial rocks. Photo: UBT / Chr. Wißler.
They were formed on the Moon more than three billion years ago, brought back to the Earth about 50 years ago, and recently arrived on the campus of the University of Bayreuth: samples of Moon rocks collected by NASA Apollo missions 16 and 17. The US national space agency has made them available to the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (BGI) of the University of Bayreuth for scientific investigations.

Under the direction of Audrey Bouvier, an internationally renowned expert on extraterrestrial rocks, the lunar samples will be analyzed in the coming years for their chemical composition using high-tech mass spectrometry methods. ...
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