Space Park Leicester developing technology for ultra-clean mini-lab to potentially contain extra-terrestrial samples returned to Earth

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Source: University of Leicester

Work has begun to design and build a Double-Walled Isolator (DWI), akin to an ultra-clean miniature laboratory, to safely store and analyse extra-terrestrial materials, such as the first material from Mars.

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