Defense News in Brief: Secrets Revealed in a Grain of Dust from the Moon Leads to Geologist’s Award

Source: United States Navy

WASHINGTON – Lunar samples of dust particles and rock have been brought back to Earth for more than half a century, ever since Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the Moon in 1969. NRL geologist Kate Burgess used samples from the Apollo 17 mission during her microscopic research of what’s inside tiny grains of moon dust.