Apollo Sample 12054 (IMAGE)

University of Cologne

Apollo Sample 12054

Caption

This sample is an ilmenite basalt collected during Apollo 12. It has glass on it, deposited by the splash of material when another basalt was struck by an impactor. Samples like 12054 allow us to reconstruct the history of the Moon with the stories they tell.

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Maxwell Thiemens, 2019

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