The Apollo missions to the Moon provided the first ever samples from a planetary body that were collected in a geologic context. Now with data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Noah Petro discussed re-evaluating those samples in a local and regional context which provides improved understanding for what those samples represent. – Noah Petro, research space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is a planetary geologist who studies the surface of airless bodies in space, primarily focusing on the Moon.

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