From Deep Space to the Deep Earth: Samples Rock!

Touch the Moon, touch Mars! Learn how samples are collected on Earth and in space to be studied by scientists.

Check out samples from NASA's Apollo missions, meteorites from the American Museum of Natural History, and rocks collected on the ocean floor by Lamont scientists. Learn what happens in the life of a sample.

NASA Astromaterials Collections poster
Slice of a meteorite
Closeup of a slice of pallasite meteorite