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X-WR-CALNAME:Meenakshi Wadhwa\, Planetary Science and Exploration Seminar: 
 “Exploration of the Solar System and Beyond via Sample Return Missions
 ”
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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DESCRIPTION:Analyses in Earth-based laboratories of lunar samples returned 
 by NASA astronauts during the Apollo program\, the robotic Soviet Luna pro
 gram in the late 1960s and early 1970s\, and more recently by the Chinese 
 Chang’e 5/6 missions have revolutionized our understanding of the Moon a
 nd the Earth-Moon system. NASA has also returned samples from a comet (Sta
 rdust mission) and from the Sun (Genesis mission)\, and JAXA’s Hayabusa 
 and Hayabusa2 missions have returned samples from two asteroids\, Itokawa 
 and Ryugu\, respectively. Finally\, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned s
 amples of asteroid Bennu last year. Samples returned by these spacecraft m
 issions are contributing immensely to addressing questions about condition
 s in the early Solar System\, planet formation processes\, and the sources
  of organics and volatiles on planetary bodies. In this talk\, I will disc
 uss the results and implications of the isotopic analyses in my laboratory
  of samples of the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu from JAXA’s recent Hayabu
 sa2 mission. I will additionally touch on future plans to return carefully
  selected samples from the planet Mars.
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LOCATION:Mitchell Earth Sciences\, B67
SUMMARY:Meenakshi Wadhwa\, Planetary Science and Exploration Seminar: “Ex
 ploration of the Solar System and Beyond via Sample Return Missions”
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/meenakshi-wadhwa-planetary-
 science-and-exploration-seminar-exploration-of-the-solar-system-and-beyond
 -via-sample-return-missions
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