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Across the country in 
Greenbelt, Maryland,

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scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center

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are also busy analyzing lunar samples.

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Dr. Isidore Adler tells

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what his group has found so far.

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There is a much higher concentration

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of some minerals.

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For example,

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there is a mineral called ilmenite,

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which is an iron titanium oxide,

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which appears to be 
unusually high

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in concentration in these rocks.

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And it seems to indicate

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perhaps, that at some
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the Moon was exposed,

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at least these surface materials,

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to some rather severe heating.

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So these frozen samples

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were actually collected

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from a region on the Moon

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that was in shadow from the Sun.

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So it was basically a large boulder.

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In the near future,

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we're going back to the Moon

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and hopefully going to the polar

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regions of the Moon,

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where some of these regions

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are in permanent shadow.

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These particular samples

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are really great analogs

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for what we might expect

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to see in the polar regions

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when we go back.

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