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Nicolas Dauphas, University of Chicago

Caption: Nicolas Dauphas, UChicago associate professor in geophysical sciences, holds vials of material collected from the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. He and graduate student Junjun Zhang also worked with samples from the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 lunar missions in their new study on the origin of the moon.

Credit: Lloyd DeGrane

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