Apollo brought home 382 kilograms of the Moon, and scientists are still finding new things in it. Some of it was deliberately left sealed for decades.

NASA held back pristine samples on the bet that future instruments would beat 1970s ones, and that bet paid off. Containers opened in the 2000s and again in 2022 have been analysed with techniques that didn't exist when the rocks were collected.

Source: JSC Lunar Sample Curation (opens in a new tab) · checked Aug 2026

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Apollo brought home 382 kilograms of the Moon, and scientists are still finding new things in it. Some of it was deliberately left sealed for decades.

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Apollo brought home 382 kilograms of the Moon, and scientists are still finding new things in it. Some of it was deliberately left sealed for decades.

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