The Apollo mission provided many lunar rock samples for scientific study. This image is of the Appollo 11 Lunar Module, which carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Sea of Tranquility. There they collected over 200 kilograms of rock samples. Rocks from the Apollo 11, 12, 15, 16 and 17 missions were recently re-evaluated. Click to enlarge.

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