Lunar Sample Atlas: Apollo Thin Sections

Lunar Sample 74002

Mission	Apollo 17
Sample Type	core
Lithology	soil
Location	Collected at south rim of 120 meter Shorty crater, at Station 4
Description	Drive tube 74001/74002 was collected at the south rim of 120 meter Shorty crater, at Station 4. The cored material is unusually compact. The core contains orange and red colored soil with nearly vertical contacts. The site is near the low place in the crater rim crest. The fragment population is viable. Craters up to several meters in diameter are scattered near the sample site. The core is almost entirely without coarse fines.