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    The Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEAM) was a lunar science experiment that flew to the Moon on board Apollo 17 in 1972. It collected information...
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    Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages ALSEP, the modularized equipment transporter (MET) (a hand-pulled equipment cart used on Apollo 14), the Lunar Rover...
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    Research: Planets. Retrieved July 9, 2018 – via Eos (magazine). Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Don L. Lind oral...
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    United States Apollo Lunar Modules flown on lunar landing missions Apollo 11 through Apollo 17, to be left permanently on the lunar surface. The plaques...
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    Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment, Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment, and Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment.: 2-1  Each ALSEP experiment had...
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    Detector Experiment (SIDE) was a lunar science experiment, first deployed by astronauts on the lunar surface in 1969 as part of Apollo 12, and later flying...
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    camera was used on the lunar surface. All of these cameras required signal processing back on Earth to make the frame rate and color encoding compatible...
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    Earth. Apollo 17 also placed an experiment on the Moon's surface called LEAM, short for Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites. It was designed to look for dust...
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    Moon rock (redirect from Lunar sample)
    of Lunar Meteorites - Feldspathic to Basaltic Order". meteorites.wustl.edu. Retrieved September 11, 2023. "Northwest Africa 12691". The Meteoritical Society...
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    Profiling Experiment (LSPE), to detect nearby seismic activity, and a Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEME), to measure the velocity and energy of...
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    Fallen Astronaut (category Monuments and memorials)
    government space program. Before his Apollo 15 lunar mission, astronaut David Scott met Belgian painter and printmaker Paul Van Hoeydonck at a dinner party...
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    regolith, and some water is chemically bonded with minerals. Other experiments have detected water molecules in the negligible lunar atmosphere, and even some...
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    about 4 and 3.85 Ga ago. This hypothesis is referred to as the lunar cataclysm or late heavy bombardment. However, it is now recognized that ejecta from...
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    instruments. Apollo 17 also placed an experiment on the Moon's surface called LEAM (Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites). It looked for dust kicked up by small...
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    meteorites that are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of ferronickel; and stony-iron meteorites that...
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    Mauritius, New Zealand, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone and Trinidad and Tobago. List of time capsules Lunar plaque List of artificial objects on the Moon "Apollo...
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    Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
    Earth and a hypothesized Mars-sized body called Theia. The lunar surface is covered in lunar dust and marked by mountains, impact craters, their ejecta, ray-like...
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    Lichtenberg on the moon), or by other impact craters or ejecta. The physical nature of lunar rays has historically been a subject of speculation. Early...
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    and lunar surface during impact events, and that some of these have landed on the Earth as meteorites. However, the first Antarctic lunar meteorite was...
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    Collisions between ejecta escaping Earth's gravity and asteroids would have left impact heating signatures in stony meteorites; analysis based on assuming...
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    Apollo 16 (redirect from Lunar Module Orion)
    Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE, a seismometer), an Active Seismic Experiment (ASE), a Lunar Heat Flow Experiment (HFE), and a Lunar Surface Magnetometer...
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    Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, 1971, by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot James...
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    Shepard and Mitchell were on the surface, Roosa remained in lunar orbit aboard the Command and Service Module, performing scientific experiments and photographing...
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    e., sediments, spherules, soils, and dust). The discoveries and compositions of meteorites and long-distance ejecta are given in the next section. A later...
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    Ivanov, Andrei; Zolensky, Michael (2003). "The Kaidun Meteorite: Where Did It Come From?" (PDF). Lunar and Planetary Science. 34. The currently available data...
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    S-type asteroids and OC meteorites. S-types are the most numerous kind of asteroid in the inner part of the asteroid belt. OC meteorites are, likewise,...
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    radiation, meteorites, micrometeorites, and ejecta from impacts. They are also insulated from the extreme temperature variations on the lunar surface. Landing...
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  • footballer Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model, a computer model Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites, a lunar science experiment Almería Airport, Spain,...
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    pressure shock metamorphism during meteorite impact cratering and is a common component of a type of glassy ejecta called tektites. Most tektites are...
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    Chandrayaan-2 (category Lunar rovers)
    Chandrayaan-2 (pronunciation; from Sanskrit: Chandra, "Moon" and yāna, "craft, vehicle") is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research...
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