Abstract:The exploration of our solar system for understanding its creation and investigating potential chances of life on other celestial bodies is a fundamental drive of human mankind. After early telescope-based observation, Apollo 11 was the first space mission able to collect samples on the lunar surface and take them back to earth for analysis. Especially in recent years this trend accelerates again, and many successors were (or are in the process of being) launched into space for extra-terrestrial sample extract… Show more
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