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Bookmark or Share- Apollo’s Bounty: The Science of the Moon RocksApollo’s Bounty: The Science of the Moon Rocks. The lunar rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts reshaped our understanding of the moon and the entire solar system. Gathering more of them is...
- What the Apollo Moon rocks told us - Astronomy MagazineThey are mostly grayish, and include many basalts, and breccias (rocks made up of broken and reassembled pieces), and mafic plutonic rocks from the highlands. This last type formed underground...
- Lunar Rocks and Soils from Apollo Missions - NASABetween 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The six space flights returned 2200 separate samples from six different exploration sites on the Moon.
- Lunar Rocks | National Air and Space MuseumAstronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt collects Moon rock samples on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the last crewed mission to go to the Moon. Lunar samples and data from Apollo transformed our understanding of the Moon and the solar system.
- Where Are the Moon Rocks? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 49Studying Moon rocks is really important because we can learn about the Moon. We can learn about Earth. We can learn about their history, their birth together 4.5 billion years ago. And we can also learn about the solar system and the planets within.
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