ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Fifty years ago, the visit of the Apollo 17 spacecraft would be the last time man set foot on the moon. Half a century later, we are still learning from that visit to Earth’s only natural satellite. This week Chad Brummett sat down with Dr. Chip Shearer, Research Scientist at the Institute of Meteoritics and Research Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM, to talk about what we can still discover from decade old rocks of lunar regolith and how these can help future exploration of space by learning to “live off the land” on the moon. Learn more about the Casa Moon project here.
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