Sample extraction from an Apollo 17 Deep Core Sample

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Close-up of the first sample being extracted from Apollo 17 Deep Core Sample 73001, fifty years after being collected by astronauts from the Moon in December 1972. Photographed at Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility in Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA.

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Photo credit: © NASA/Robert Markowitz/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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