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Apollo 11: lunar rock

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo11-40031

Image Size 300 DPI: 32 * 47 cm

This is the first lunar sample that was photographed in detail in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The photograph shows a granular, fine-grained, mafic (iron magnesium rich) rock. At this early stage of the examination, this rock appears similar to several igneous rock types found on Earth. The scale is printed backwards due to the photographic configuration in the Vacuum Chamber. The sample number is 10003. This rock was among the samples collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during their lunar surface extravehicular activity on July 20, 1969. 27 July 1969.

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1969 - APOLLO - APOLLO 11 - BLACK AND WHITE - LUNAR ROCK - SAMPLE -