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These young scientists will shape the next 50 years of Moon research

Half a century after Apollo, Nature profiles five researchers who are shaking up lunar exploration.
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Megha Bhatt grew up gazing at the Moon riding through the blackest of skies. Electricity was often off at night in her small village in India, so there was plenty of time to marvel at the celestial views. Her parents told her stories of how American men had gone to the Moon and taken a giant step there. At school, she saw a video of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface, and she was hooked. She became a planetary scientist.

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Nature 571, 163-166 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02086-6

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