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Apollo 11: lunar rock

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo11-40032

Image Size 300 DPI: 40 * 55 cm

This is a photo micrograph of lunar sample 10022. Magnification one inch equals one-tenth millimeter. The light blue and white mineral is plagioclase. The black is ilmenite, and the blue and/or green and/or orange and/or yellow and/or red mineral is pyroxene. The large pyroxene is a phenocryst that had been partially resorbed. The lunar samples collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission have been subjected to extensive tests and examinations at the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory. Septembre 1969.

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1969 - APOLLO - APOLLO 11 - LUNAR ROCK - MICROSCOPE - POSTER - SAMPLE -