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A filter in the canister where the sample is kept lets air in but keeps out moisture, dust and organic material, Dworkin said, which ultimately preserves the sample until it can be properly analyzed.
After the sample touches down this Sunday morning in the Utah Test and Training Range in the state's West Desert, it will be taken into a nearby clean room for an ultra-pure nitrogen purge to prevent external matter from getting inside the canister. Early next week, the sample will be sent to a newly built clean room at thein Houston.
A team of scientists will begin studying the sample shortly after its arrival in Houston, and those initial findings are expected to be released within the next few weeks. "We won't find life itself, but we're definitely looking at the building blocks that could have eventually evolved into life," Michelle Thompson, who is an associate professor in Purdue University's College of Science and one of the six lead investigators who will get a first peek at the asteroid sample, said in aOver the course of one year, small amounts of the sample will be shipped to about 200 scientists at various institutions around the world for further analysis...
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