Planetology: MoonLunar powder samples returned by Apollo 11 are remarkably similar in their optical properties to those measured for an area of several square kilometers surrounding Tranquillity base, suggesting a ubiquitous covering of the same material in the region. However, there are minor ...
It's too weird to make up: NASA fed some of its precious Apollo 11 lunar samples to cockroaches. And dumped it in fishbowls. And injected mice with it. No, really. NASA still has most of themoon rocks the Apollo 11 crewbrought home, but a small fraction of the astronauts' bounty wa...
SYDNEY, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists studying lunar rock samples have found one of the rocks' compositions to be highly indicative that it was in fact formed on Earth, causing them to speculate that it was thrown there when an asteroid struck our planet billions of years ago. ...
each of them increasing the time spent on the moon. The last three Apollo missions used a lunar rover vehicle to travel in the vicinity of the various landing sites. The scientific experiments placed on the moon and the lunar soil samples returned through Project Apollo have been a boon...
Of the six manned moon landings, Apollo 11 yielded the fewest lunar samples: 48 pounds or 22 kilograms. It was the first landing by astronauts and NASA wanted to minimize their on-the-moon time and risk. What's left from this mission—about three-quarters after scientific study, public dis...
of the lunar sample displays became the property of the recepient entity and therefore was no longer subject to being tracked by NASA. All other lunar samples' locations are well documented by the U.S. space agency to this day (with exception to similarly giftedApollo 17 goodwill moon rocks...
The Apollo 11 astronauts returned valuable rock samples from the Sea of Tranquility landing site that revealed the moon's fiery past for the first time. The samples showed that this region of the moon was once the site of volcanic activity, and that thin flows of lava had once flowed where...
阿波罗11号(Apollo 11)是美国国家航空航天局的阿波罗计划中的第五次载人任务,是人类第一次登月任务,三位执行此任务的宇航员分别为指令长尼尔•阿姆斯特朗(Neil Armstrong)、指令舱驾驶员迈克尔•科林斯(Michael Collins)与登月舱驾驶员巴兹•奥尔德林(Buzz Aldrin)。1969年7月20日,阿姆斯特朗与奥尔德林成为了首次踏...
By the time the Moon rocks and dust got back to Earth—a total of 842 pounds from six lunar landings—the odor was gone from the samples, exposed to air and moisture in their storage boxes. No one has quite figured out what caused the odor to begin with, or why it was...
When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth after their historic moon landing, they brought back lunar samples for scientists to study. In light of the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, which occurs Saturday, NASA has released rare footage of those scientists checking the samples ...