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JSC Curation is supporting instrument development and testing by providing lunar sample “ground truth”. A reference suite of lunar 18 rocks and 4 soils, spanning the compositional and petrographic range found in the Apollo collection, has been selected and approved to support this testing. A glovebox and laboratory space for testing such instruments are available in the JSC Lunar Experiment Laboratory. Thin sections of the reference suite samples are available at JSC for direct comparison. The Lunar Sample Compendium published on-line at:
www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/compendium summarizes previous analyses of these samples. The laboratory, sample suite, and Compendium are available to the lunar research and exploration community.
Ground rules:
• Tests must be non-destructive.
• Tests may be conducted in the glovebox or on the bench top in the JSC Lunar Experiment Laboratory.
• The instrument must be transported to JSC for the tests.
• The investigator must submit a short proposal to the JSC Lunar Sample Curator, describing the proposed tests and previous results on relevant terrestrial samples.
• For accepted tests JSC will provide samples, testing area, and curator / technician support at no cost. All other costs must be supported by the proposer.
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