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Scott Cooper had offered me a movie previous to Deliver Me from Nowhere.
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Matt Grobar,
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Researchers tested this process, known as photothermal catalysis, in the laboratory using a simulant based on samples of lunar regolith returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission (the lunar samples are far too previous to destroy in such experiments, which is why a simulant is used instead).
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