This contamination could produce amino acids during
lunar sample analysis in the lab.
Not exact matches
So says a fresh
analysis of
lunar rock
samples from two American moonshots.
Their
analysis showed a 3 - to 4 - ppm (parts per million) difference between the oxygen isotopic concentrations of the
lunar rocks and the terrestrial basalts, but no significant difference between the
lunar samples and terrestrial olivine, a common mineral in Earth's subsurface.
From spacecraft studies and
analysis of
samples from NASA's Apollo
lunar missions, the researchers knew how often large solar storms occur.
This is what the team found in one of the
lunar samples that was abundant enough for isotopic
analysis.
The development of ever more sensitive microscopy and chemical -
analysis techniques will continue to produce new insights from existing
samples into the foreseeable future — good news, considering that no nation appears to be close to returning humans to the
lunar surface.
Analysis of
lunar rock
samples thought to have been derived from the original magma has given scientists a new estimate of the Moon's age.
b.)
Analysis of
lunar samples revealed mass fractionation in the Sun that enriches lightweight elements (h and He) and lightweight isotopes of each element at the solar surface: http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1975Data.htm