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Apollo 16
Apollo 16 was the fifth manned mission to land on
the Moon and the first to land in the highlands
area
The crew was (l-r) T. Kenneth Mattingly Jr.
(Command Module Pilot) John W. Young
(Commander) Charles M. Duke Jr. (Lunar Module
Pilot)
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Apollo 16
The mission was launched on April 16, 1972 and
lasted 11 days and 2 hours 5 days and 6 hours was
spent orbiting the Moon 2 days and 23 hours was
spent on the surface of the Moon
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Apollo 16
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Apollo 16
They got to drive around the landing site and
collected 95.71 kilograms (211 pounds) of lunar
rock
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Apollo 16
65015.46 is the 46th chip from the 15th rock
collected at the 5th stop It is a metamorphosed
impact melt breccia, which was created when a
meteorite slammed into the Moons surface
This is what the sample looks like when you make
a thin section and view it in polarized light
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Apollo 16
http//curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/65015.pdf