The curation of extraterrestrial samples (astromaterials) obtained by sample-return missions takes place at facilities specially designed to preserve both...

Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility (Japanese: 惑星物質試料受入れ設備) (PMSCF), commonly known as the Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center (ESCuC, 地球外試料キュレーションセンター)...

well as samples brought to Earth by sample return missions from the Moon, asteroids and comets, as well as solar wind particles. Extraterrestrial materials...

A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions...

the samples for retrieval. France has worked towards a sample return for many years. This included concepts of an extraterrestrial sample curation facility...

and other extraterrestrial samples, along with associated data records. It also contains laboratories for processing and studying the samples without contamination...

equation Earliest known life forms Earth analog Extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial sample curation Extremophiles Hypothetical types of biochemistry...

Disrupted planet Excretion disk Exozodiacal dust Extraterrestrial materials Extraterrestrial sample curation Giant-impact hypothesis Gravitational collapse...

sealed containers are opened. The samples will be curated and analyzed at JAXA's Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center, where international scientists...

Yoshikawa M.; Kawaguchi J. (2014). "Hayabusa-returned sample curation in the Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility of JAXA". Met. & Planet. Sci. 49 (2):...