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🗓️ 19 July 2019
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
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0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:38.8 | The Apollo missions brought back 842 pounds of rock and soil from the moon, nearly 2,200 different samples. |
0:46.4 | But there's one sample that planetary scientist Manakshi-Wadha says is the most interesting of all. |
0:51.5 | Apollo 10085. |
0:54.5 | Neil Armstrong collected it on Apollo 11. |
0:56.9 | He was about to step back into the lunar module, and he turned around and just, he had this |
1:00.9 | rock box, and he saw little spaces, you know, in there, and he knew that these geologists |
1:06.8 | on Earth would be just so excited to study these materials. |
1:09.8 | He just scooped up, I think, |
1:11.6 | nine scoops of soil that he put into the box. And it became one of the most well-studied |
1:16.4 | samples of the Apollo mission, she says. A geologist named John Wood at the Smithsonian noticed |
1:21.2 | white flecks of rock in the soil, which he identified as a rock type called anorthosite. |
1:26.1 | And it clued him into the moon's ancient past. |
1:28.8 | And this was quite a leap of imagination, |
1:31.4 | but he proposed that the whole of the moon had at one time in the past, |
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