Lunar Sample 15256
Mission | Apollo 15 |
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Sample Type | rock |
Lithology | breccia |
Location | Collected at station 6, on the bottom slope of the Apennine bench, above Spur Crater, was well above the mare surface, and the sample must have been ejected from a crater into the mare below. |
Description | 15256 is a rare type of lunar breccia, made up of mostly mare basalt fragments, that are welded together; is rounded, aphanitic, coherent and covered with micrometeorite craters on most sides. It is made up of fragments of olivine-normative basalt and lacks fragments of pyroxene basalt (the other main variety of Apollo 15 basalt). The sample lacks a signature of meteoritic siderophiles and was not a soil. This rock has not been dated. |
Laboratory Views (Mug Shots)
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Thin Sections
In Situ
AS15-86-11629 |
AS15-86-11630 |
AS15-86-11631 |
AS15-86-11632 |
Cutting and Miscellaneous Lab Views
Stereo Views
Other Information
Lunar Sample Atlas Lunar Sample15256