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Fig. 12

From: A curation for uncontaminated Hayabusa2-returned samples in the extraterrestrial curation center of JAXA: from the beginning to present day

Fig. 12

a Image of the sample container for aggregate sample grains. The glass container dish is made of sapphire glass, and its cover plate is made of quartz glass. The container outer diameter is 23 mm. The container and the cover plate are enclosed with a lid and an outer case made of stainless steel 304. b A container for an individual sample grain. The outer diameter of the sapphire dish is 15 mm. The outer case of the container is made of stainless steel 304, and the dish as well as the cover plate are tightened with a wave washer in the second left and a leftmost stainless-steel ring. There is also a smaller container whose outer diameter of the sapphire dish is 10 mm. c A case for storing multiple containers of diameters 15 mm and 10 mm, respectively. Each case includes 10 and 15 of them, respectively, and can be piled up to store several tens of them. d A special nozzle customized to handle a quartz glass cover plate of the container. e An FFTC for transportation of individual samples without exposing them to air, from Fig. 1 a and b of Ito et al. (2020)

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