{"id":132654,"date":"2021-12-18T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/an-apollo-can-opener-will-soon-unseal-a-50-year-old-box-of-moon-soil"},"modified":"2021-12-18T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T20:24:04","slug":"an-apollo-can-opener-will-soon-unseal-a-50-year-old-box-of-moon-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/an-apollo-can-opener-will-soon-unseal-a-50-year-old-box-of-moon-soil","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018Apollo Can Opener\u2019 Will Soon Unseal a 50-Year-Old Box of Moon Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-apollo-can-opener-will-soon-unseal-a-50-year-old-box-of-moon-soil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) will soon open a container of Moon soil that has gone untouched since it was collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts almost 50 years ago, a press statement reveals.<\/p>\n<p>To open the sample, they will have to use a specialized piercing tool jokingly titled the \u201cApollo Can Opener\u201d by members of the team. The tool was specially designed to open the specific soil sample, designated the number 73001.<\/p>\n<p>A double-sealed 50-year-old Moon soil sample The Moon soil sample was collected on the Moon in 1972 at the Taurus-Littrow Valley by Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last person to have set foot on the Moon. Cernan hammered a 70-cm-long cylindrical tube into the Moon\u2019s surface to retrieve a core sample of the lunar soil. The sample was then sealed in a vacuum-tight container on the Moon before it was returned to Earth. Once on Earth, the vacuum-sealed sample was then placed in a vacuum chamber for added protection.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Christmas. Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) will soon open a container of Moon soil that has gone untouched since it was collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts almost 50 years ago, a press statement reveals. To open the sample, they will have to use a specialized piercing tool jokingly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}