Approximately 78 kg of lunar rock and soil samples were returned by Apollo 15. The rather complete documentation of the locations of nearly all of the samples allows for relating the samples to the specific and detailed geologic environments from which they were collected. This is especially important in an area as geologically complex as the Hadley-Apennine site. All of the material presented was derived from the pre-mission photogeologic maps, lunar surface television video tapes, air-to-ground transcript and crew debriefings, photographs taken on the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 crew, and information supplied by the Lunar Sample Preliminary Examination team from which the samples were categorized into groups consisting of, broadly, basalts and breccias. The breccias are considered loosely in terms of coherent breccias and soil breccias.


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    Title :

    Preliminary description of Apollo 15 sample environments


    Contributors:
    Swann, G. A. (author) / Hait, M. H. (author) / Schaber, G. G. (author) / Freeman, V. L. (author) / Ulrich, G. E. (author) / Wolfe, E. W. (author) / Reed, V. S. (author) / Sutton, R. L. (author)

    Publication date :

    1971-09-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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