Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search.

The Apollo collection consists of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. Two of the larger sealed samples were collected by Apollo 17 moonwalkers in December 1972.

After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...

Collected during Apollo 16, an anorthosite sample believed to be the oldest rock collected during the moon missions is displayed in the lunar lab at the NASA Johnson Space Center Monday, June 17 ...

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history. ... Return to Homepage. Top Stories: National Guard troops in L.A.

Three sealed samples from Apollo 15, 16 and 17 remain unopened. According to several key lunar researchers, ... return and analysis of volatile-bearing lunar samples," Neal told Space.com.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Monday the agency will study lunar samples which have been collecting dust since the 1970s after being brought back to Earth during the Apollo 15, 16 ...

A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972 offers a clearer picture of the effects of asteroid strikes on the moon, allowing scientists to reconstruct billions of ...