Pristine Apollo 17 lunar core sample to be finally analyzed after 47 years

To help inform lunar exploration plans set to begin in the next few years by robotic probes and then when humans return to the Moon in the 2020s, a long dormant core sample collected by astronauts in 1972 may reveal secrets of how the Taurus-Littrow Valley formed and the distribution of volatiles in the soil. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00963-8?bcmt=1