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Surprisingly STEM: Moon Rock Processors

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Apollo sample processors, from left, Andrea Mosie, Charis Krysher and Juliane Gross open lunar sample 73002.

Audience

Educators, Students

Grade Levels

Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Higher Education, Informal Education

Subject

Careers, Earth Science, Geology

Type

Videos

Want to meet a “rock” star? How about two? Andrea Mosie and Juliane Gross work in the Astromaterials lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It’s their job to keep track of every Moon rock sample brought back to Earth by the Apollo astronauts, and to help scientists all over the world conduct lunar sample research. Learn more about this stellar job and why NASA is going back to the Moon with the Artemis missions.

Surprisingly STEM is a video series that highlights exciting and unexpected careers at NASA. Each episode highlights a member of NASA’s workforce, focusing on their unique job and how their personal journey led them to that career.

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