Apollo 15— July 26, 1971. Astronauts David Scott, James Irwin and Alfred Worden were part of the mission that carried the lunar roving vehicle, often known as the moon buggy, for the first time to the moon. Their mission emphasized geological work, and the crew was trained to identify di...
The extent to which plants can enhance human life support on other worlds depends on the ability of plants to thrive in extraterrestrial environments using in-situ resources. Using samples from Apollo 11, 12, and 17, we show that the terrestrial plant Ar
Though the near side has large dark patches, the far side has few of these spots. Thespots are called maria, dark areas formed when meteoroids slammed into the moon, erasing previous craters that recorded some of the moon's geological history. But the far side seems to have a more pristi...
the preparation of samples was carried out in the microbiological laboratory of the NASA Johnson Space Centre in Houston at an air-conditioned temperature of 20°C and high humidity. At the same
It has been determined from geological field relationships, crater excavation depths and radiometric age dating that the olivine-normative basalts are stratigraphically above the quartz-normative basalts (ALGIT, 1972), but correlations between the sampling localities east of the rille and the out...
samples tended to be slightly prolate on average. The aspect ratio (S/L) ranged from 0.570 (L24130.3–4) to 0.601 (L1613-1) and the average three-axial ratios of the whole sample wereS/I = 0.770(8),I/L = 0.758(10), andS/L = 0.581(11) (Additional file1Table S1)...
Guest geological story-telling by David Middleton One of the coolest things about WUWT is the enthusiasm that Anthony and many other regulars here have for the space program. As a life-long space junkie, I know that my enthusiasm for the space program pu
Development and Research Center, China Geological Survey, Beijing 100037, China 3. School of information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China 2015-07-01收稿,2015-10-08改回.Chen JP, Wang X, Gao GD and Yao MJ. 2016. Moon lithology typical Method study ...
The lunar simulation, nicknamed "Grover," was created by the United States Geological Survey. More Driving Lessons NASA Inside Building 5, the Mission Simulation and Training Facility of the Manned Spacecraft Center, two of the three prime crew of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission participate...
MCGEEDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, U.S.A.ABSTRACTAlkali suite anorthosites and norites are the second most common plutonic rock association in thewestern lunar highlands (after the magnesian suite), but their origin poses an enigma ...