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1 de jul. de 2019 · Studies of the Genesis Rock and the nearly 400 kilograms of other samples hauled back to Earth by the Apollo astronauts overturned our ... Forming a Moon with an Earth-like Composition via a ...
3 de ago. de 2017 · Some guy was writing about what the astronauts did on the Moon and all that sort of stuff, and he said 'Ah, these guys found this rock they called the Genesis Rock. They were wrong. It wasn't the Genesis Rock at all.' (Straight-faced) Okay."] [Jones - "It was somebody in the media - while you were up there - who named it."] [Scott - "That's right.
Air and Space Live Chat. July 15, 2021 | 1 - 2pm. Presented Online. Home / What's On / Events / Moon Rocks. During Apollo 15, fifty years ago this summer, astronauts James Irwin and Dave Scott found a rock on the Moon that became known as the Genesis Rock. Originally it was thought to be a piece of the Moon's primordial crust.
26 de jul. de 2021 · That rock, later numbered 15415, became known as Genesis rock, and although it is not the oldest sample returned from the Moon, it’s an excellent example of the early crust.”
10 de nov. de 2018 · During the Apollo 15 mission, even older samples, such as the “Genesis" rock, dated to over four billion years old, had been found. Lacking erosion due to wind and water, volcanism and a magnetic field, the moon appeared to have been preserved in pristine condition. “It is like keeping the moon in a refrigerator," says Bhandari.
15 de jul. de 2019 · The Genesis Rock, shown here before processing, is a piece of the moon’s primordial crust that was picked up in 1971 by Apollo 15 astronauts. It is white because it contains anorthosites. NASA
The Genesis Rock, returned by the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert in Utah. A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring back merely atoms and molecules or a deposit of ...
