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That sample, nicknamed the Genesis Rock, sample number 15415, was an anorthosite, a piece of the moon’s primordial crust. Geologists, hoping to learn more about the moon and its origins, selected the Hadley-Apennines landing site for precisely this reason.
called “Genesis Rock” and the name has stuck in spite of the fact that it may not be the oldest rock from the Moon. The astronauts correctly recognized that it was coarse-grained, made almost entirely of plagioclase and probably from the lunar highlands (figure 1). Thin sections also show that it is an anorthosite made almost
19 de nov. de 1971 · PETROGRAPHIC, microprobe and X-ray data were obtained from thin section 15415,14 and 1–2 mm fines 15415,28, part of the anorthositic rock returned by Apollo 15. The section consists of ∼97% ...
Roca Génesis. La roca Génesis. La roca Génesis es una muestra de roca lunar recogida por los astronautas del Apolo 15 James Irwin y David Scott en 1971 durante su segunda actividad extravehicular lunar. Actualmente se almacena en el Fondo del Laboratorio de Muestras Lunares en Houston, Texas . El análisis químico de la roca Génesis indica ...
31 de jul. de 2021 · How a small rock on the moon changed everything we knew about our closest neighbour. ... Sample 15415, AKA the Genesis Rock, thought to be part of the moon’s early crust. NASA.
19 de feb. de 2013 · The chemical traces of water have been found in this moon rock, called the Genesis Rock. The moon rock was collected by astronauts during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 and is thought to be a piece ...
26 de jun. de 2019 · The Genesis Rock, foreground, a 4.4 billion year old anorthosite rock, approximately 2 inches in length, brought back by Apollo 15 and used to determine the moon was formed by a giant impact, sits under glass inside a pressurized nitrogen-filled examination case as Lacey Costello, an Apollo sample curation processor, works with other samples on the outside of the case inside the lunar lab at ...
