Transcript Moon Missions - Jefferson Lab

Mission to the Moon
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself
to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of
landing a man on the Moon and returning him
safely to the Earth.
MAY 25, 1961
APOLLO LANDING SITES
Houston, we've had a problem.
Moon Rocks
840 pounds (382 kilograms) of
rock and other surface material.
REGOLITH
• (Greek: "blanket rock")
is a layer of loose,
heterogeneous
material covering solid
rock. It includes dust,
soil, broken rock, and
other related materials
and is present on
Earth, the Moon, some
asteroids, and other
planets.
Lunar regolith, apollo 17
Apollo 17 astronauts found
a soil composed of black
and orangish balls they
named orange soil. This
soil was created 3.5
billion years ago from
lava spray ejected by
gasses from a volcano.
The spray formed liquid
droplets that hardened.
Impact Breccias - rocks made
from the debris of the many
meteor impacts which have
occurred in the Moon's history.
These rocks form when fragments
of shattered rock either are
smashed together by the
collision, or melted together by
the heat of collision.
Lunar Breccia
Basalt
• a hard gray or black,
igneous volcanic rock
that is usually finegrained due to rapid
cooling of lava,
Microscopic section of lunar basalt,
Apollo 17
• Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan was the
last man on the Moon. He left a plaque
which read, "Here Man completed his first
exploration of the Moon December 1972 A.D.
May the spirit of peace in which we came be
reflected in the lives of all mankind."
Moon Tree at Booker
Elementary School
Hampton, VA