The Astromaterials X-Ray Computed Tomography Laboratory at Johnson Space Center

Zeigler, R A ; Blumenfeld, E H ; Mccubbin, Francis M ; Evans, Cynthia A

关键词: EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER;    TOMOGRAPHY;    COLLECTION;   

RP-ID  :  JSC-E-DAA-TN54726

学科分类：空间科学

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

The Astromaterials Acquisition and Cura-tion Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center (hereafter JSC curation) is the past, present, and future home of all of NASA's astromaterials sample collections. JSC curation currently houses all or part of nine different sample collections. Our primary goals are to maintain the long-term integrity of the samples and ensure that the samples are distributed for scientific study in a fair, timely, and responsible manner, thus maximizing the return on each sample. Part of the curation process is planning for the future, thus we also perform funda-mental research in advanced curation initiatives. Ad-vanced Curation is tasked with developing procedures, technology, and data sets necessary for curating new types of sample collections, or getting new results from existing sample collections [1]. As part of these ad-vanced curation efforts we are augmenting our analyti-cal facilities.