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 ...

Apollo 16 and 17, responsible for half the lunar haul, get two cabinets apiece. The total Apollo inventory now exceeds 100,000 samples; some of the original 2,200 were broken into smaller pieces ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...