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Apollo 17 lunar regolith

Lunar soil sample collected during the Apollo 17 mission, characterized as immature regolith with a mixture of basaltic material.

Confidence
90%
active

Source

Anna-Lisa Paul et al. (2022). Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith present stress-associated transcriptomes that inform prospects for lunar exploration doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03334-8