 | Thiessen, Fiona, Nemchin, Alexander A., Snape, Joshua F., Whitehouse, Martin J., Bellucci, Jeremy J. (2017) Impact history of the Apollo 17 landing site revealed by U-Pb SIMS ages. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 52 (4) 584-611 doi:10.1111/maps.12814 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| 10.1111/maps.12814 Impact history of the Apollo 17 landing site revealed by U-Pb SIMS ages Fiona THIESSEN1...Thiessen@nrm.se (Received 13 July 2015; revision accepted 17 November 2016) Abstract–Secondary ion mass spectrometry...(72255, 76055, 76015, 76215) collected at the Apollo 17 landing site were obtained in an attempt to identify...they represent a single or several impact event(s). The determined ages, combined with inferences from petrologic...Searching for possible sources of the breccias by calculating the continuous ejecta radii of impact basins |
 | Wolfe, Edward W., Bailey, N.G., Lucchitta, Baerbel K., Muehlberger, W.R., Scott, D.H., Sutton, R.L., Wilshire, H.G., Batson, R.M., Larson, K.B., Tyner, R.L. (1981) The geologic investigation of the Taurus-Littrow Valley; Apollo 17 landing site, with a section on Apollo 17 lunar surface photography. Professional Paper 1080. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1080 | Report (issue) |
| Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow Valley: *j Apollo 17 Landing Site GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...of the National Aeronautics ,and Space Administration The Geologic Investigation of the Taurus-Littrow...Taurus-Littrow Valley: Apollo 17 Landing Site By EDWARD W. WOLFE, NORMAN G. BAILEY, BAERBEL K. LUCCHITTA, WILLIAM...SUTTON, and HOWARD G. WILSHIRE With a section on APOLLO 17 LUNAR SURFACE PHOTOGRAPHY By RAYMOND M. BATSON...on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration A synthesis of Apollo 17 lunar surface |
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| OF THE APOLLO LANDING SITE (NASA-CR-191637) GEOLOGY OF THE SITE (Lunar 17 WORKSHOP ON APOLLO 17 LANDING...LANDING Science Inst.) 70 N93-18786 --THRU-N93-18817 Unclas p G3/91 __ LPI Technical LUNAR ...77058-1113 WORKSHOP GEOLOGY ON OF THE APOLLO 17 LANDING SITE Edited by G. Ryder, H. H. Schmitt,...1992by LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE The Instituteis operatedby the University SpaceResearchAssociationunderContractNo...volume sonal research permission purposes; of the authors may be copied however, without restraint |
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| geologic history of the Apollo 17 site: The record in soils and small rock particles from the highland massifs...and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis...individual lithic fragments from the 2 mm-4 mm grain-size fractions of five Apollo 17 soil samples (72443, 72503...have determined the diversity and proportions of rock types recorded within soils from the highland massifs...massifs. The distribution of rock types at the site, as recorded by lithic fragments in the soils, is an |
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| 1997 Copyright© 1997 ElsevierScienceLtd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/97 $17.00 + .00...00386-9 The complex stratigraphy of the highland crust in the Serenitatis region of the Moon inferred...natural drill holes into the Moon, and their ejecta carries unique information about the rock types and stratigraphy...stratigraphy of the lunar crust. We have conducted an electron microprobe study of mineral fragments in the poikilitic...melt breccias collected from the Taurus Mountains at the Apollo 17 landing site. These breccias are virtually |
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| Society, 1998 Printed in USA The case for an Imbrium origin of the Apollo thorium-rich impact-melt breccias...and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, One Brookings...identified with the composition known as low-K Fra Mauro (LKFM), are the most common rock type in the nonmare...nonmare regoliths of the Apollo lunar landing sites. The origin of mafic impact-melt breccias bears on many...many lunar problems: the nature of the late meteoroid bombardment (cataclysm); the spatial distribution of |
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| Volume 76, pages 773-784' 1991 Evolution of the Moon: APollo model H. Scrrnrrrr H,q,RRrsoN P.O. Box 14338...Ansrucr The major stagesof lunar evolution as derived from information obtained from the Apollo and Luna...follows: 1. Beginning-4.55 eons. The moon formed contemporaneouslywith the Earth. Geophysical data and parentlessPb...settling and floating diferentiated the outer 400-500 km of the moon into an anorthositic crust 50-70 km...forming craters at least 50 km in diameter saturated the Pre-Neclarian lunar crust, producing intense crustal |
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| 1 Oxidation states and ascent history of the Apollo 17 volcanic as inferred from metal-glass equilibria...Abstract-The composition, mode of occurrence, and relationships of metal blebs in the Apollo I7 74001/2...states during ascent and eruption of the lunar volcanic glasses. The 74001/2 core is composed of -99% orange...metal blebs. and. in the upper 8 cm of the core, lithic fragments composing the remaining 1%. In an analysis...taken along the length of the 68 cm deep core. These blebs are classified into three types on the basis of |
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| ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 17 PRELIMINARY SCIENCE REPORT Apollo 17 command and service module over the Taurus-Littrow...Taurus-Littrow landing site. NASA SP-330 Preliminary Science Report PREPARED BY LYNDOI\1 B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER...Washington, D.C. EDITORIAL BOARD The material submitted for the "Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report"...reviewed by a NASA Editorial Review Board consisting of the following members: Robert A. Parker (Chairman), Richard...right: (I) The command and service module scientific instrument module bay viewed from the lunar module |
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| PROCEEDINGS OF THE Volume 1: Mineralogy and Petrology GEOGHIMICA ETCpSNIQCHllyliCA AC^ China-America...una 14 DAY BOOK This book is due on or before the latest date stamped beiow MAR04’86'CSUN.l^/E8 2...COSMOCHIMICA ACTA # SUPPLEMENT 5 PROCEEDINGS OE THE FIFTH LUNAR SCIENCE CONFERENCE Houston, Texas, March...THREE VOLUMES deal primarily with Earth and its Moon, but in a very real sense they are discussing,...histories of planetary bodies throughout the solar system, if not the universe. It is in this rather philosophical |
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| Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam - Printed in The Netherlands 373 ORIGIN OF MAGNETIZATION IN LUNAR...collected from the station 6 boulder at the Apollo 17 landing site, were studied magnetically. The boulder is...lithologic units distinguished by their clast population. The direction of magnetization of samples from unit B...magnetization but the distribution is not random. Based on these data we propose that the natural remanent...remanent magnetization (NRM) in these brecclas is the vector sum of two magnetizations, a pre-impact magnetization |
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| Mantling deposits on the Moon are considered to be pyroclastic units emplaced on the lunar surface as a... indicating an absence of surface scatterers in the 1- to 50-cm-size range. A number of reflectance spectra...regional pyroclastic deposits are presented for the first time; these data support a previous interpretation...is indicative of the presence of a significant Fe-bearing volcanic glass component. The Rima Bode region...vidicon data) were used to reconstruct the geologic events surrounding the emplacement of a regional pyroclastic |
 | Shearer, Charles K., Burger, Paul V., Bell, Aaron S., Guan, Yunbin, Neal, Clive R. (2015) Exploring the Moon's surface for remnants of the lunar mantle 1. Dunite xenoliths in mare basalts. A crustal or mantle origin?. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50 (8) 1449-1467 doi:10.1111/maps.12480 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| doi: 10.1111/maps.12480 Exploring the Moon’s surface for remnants of the lunar mantle 1. Dunite xenoliths...Corresponding author. E-mail: cshearer@unm.edu (Received 17 November 2014; revision accepted 10 May 2015) Abstract–Remotely...interpreted as indicating that the deep crust and upper mantle are close to or at the lunar surface in many large...impact basins (e.g., Crisium, Apollo, Moscoviense). If this is correct, the capability of either impact...volcanic processes to transport mantle lithologies to the lunar surface should be enhanced in these regions |
 | Fernandes, V. A., Fritz, J., Weiss, B. P., Garrick-Bethell, I., Shuster, D. L. (2013) The bombardment history of the Moon as recorded by40Ar-39Ar chronology. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48 (2) 241-269 doi:10.1111/maps.12054 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| (2013) doi: 10.1111/maps.12054 The bombardment history of the Moon as recorded by 40 Ar-39Ar chronology...been obtained for 1–3 mm sized rock fragments from Apollo 16 Station 13 soil 63503 (North Ray crater ejecta)...collected by Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions. Selection of these samples was aimed at the old 40Ar-39Ar...40Ar-39Ar ages to understand the early history of the lunar magnetic field and impact flux. Fifteen samples...feldspathic fragmental breccias, and impact melts. The impact ages obtained range between approximately |
 | Sharp, Miriam, Gerasimenko, Iva, Loudin, Lorne C., Liu, Jingao, James, Odette B., Puchtel, Igor S., Walker, Richard J. (2014) Characterization of the dominant impactor signature for Apollo 17 impact melt rocks. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 131. 62-80 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.01.014 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| com/locate/gca Characterization of the dominant impactor signature for Apollo 17 impact melt rocks Miriam Sharp...online 27 January 2014 Abstract Concentrations of the highly siderophile elements (HSE) Re, Os, Ir, Ru...reported for seven Apollo 17 impact melt rocks. These data are used to examine the dominant chemical signature...signature of the impactor that formed the melts. Six of the samples (72355, 72435, 72535, 76035, 76055...sample (73235) has an aphanitic texture. Data for the samples define linear correlations when Ir is plotted |
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| spectroscopy of selected regional dark mantle deposits of the Moon Sabrina Pinori ∗ , Giancarlo Bellucci CNR, Istituto...present the study of four surface units previously identi/ed as dark mantle deposits on the Moon: Taurus...Taurus Littrow, Sulpicius Gallus, Mare Vaporum and Rima Bode deposits. The data have been obtained at the...Spain) by using an imaging spectrometer working in the 0.4 –1:0 m spectral range. Principal features of...geologic units are: (a) low albedo, (b) localization at the boundaries between highlands and maria, and (c) spectral |
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| - Printed in The Netherlands [21 IDENTIFICATION AND SIGNIFICANCE O F ARMALCOLITE IN THE RIES GLASS AHMED...and with the electron microprobe revealed the presence of armalcolite in impactite glasses of the Ries crater...crater. This is the first report of the occurrence of this mineral in impactite glasses and the second terrestrial...terrestrial occurrence. In the Ries impactites, armalcolite occurs only in the glasses in two distinct assemblages:...ilmenite, (2) with rutile. Chemistry and textures of the coexisting armalcolite-ilmenite pairs are indicative |
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| ; ,: &. THE 0: ?$? $ W -^ U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348 *w COVER The region of...of the Imbrium and Serenitatis basins during six episodes of lunar history. From lower right to upper...upper left, the paintings depict the Moon's surface as it may have looked (1) late in the Nectarian Period;...Period; (2) in the Early Imbrian Epoch, soon after formation of the Imbrium basin; (3) late in the Early Imbrian...Imbrian Epoch; (4) in the Late Imbrian Epoch; (5) in the Eratosthenian Period; and (6) as it is today Paintings |
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| high-titanium mare basalt from the Van Serg core, Apollo 17 landing site GRAHAM RYDER Lunar and Planetary...basalt picked from the drive tube collected at Van Serg crater at the Apollo 17 landing site has a bulk chemistry...high-titanium mare basalt groups collected at the site. The sample has a fine-grained olivine phyric, subophitic...high-titanium basalt samples. The grain size and texture suggest that the sample has a composition close...close to that of a magma. The crystallization sequence, with appearance of oxide minerals later than in |
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| concerning the nature, history and origin of the Sun and planets has taken us far beyond the limits of...imperfectly understood Earth. Men have walked upon the Moon, and unmanned spacecraft have explored our Ace...IV ELeeelate Mt the probing eyes of spacecraft cameras, and further ventures in the Solar System will...booklet we focus attention on the Moon, meteorites. Cover; Apollo 17 astronaut examining fractured boulder...boulder of breccia on the Moon's surface near Taurus-Littrow landing site, 13 December 1972 Se aun ee |
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| Stratigraphy of Part of the Lunar Near Side By DON E. WILHELMS APOLLO 15 GEOLOGICAL 17 ORBITAL SURVEY ...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1046-A Prepared on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration UNITED...WASHINGTON : 1980 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Wilhelms, Don E. Stratigraphy of part of the lunar nearside Apollo 15-17 orbital investigations. Geological...19.16:1046-A I. Lunar stratigraphy. 2. Project Apollo. I. United States. National Aeronautics and Space |
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| rises e l EE ee a eg ee os sie Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin...org/details/to rockymoongeolo0000wilh pal2 i a To a Rocky Moon 1% (geen ‘ i wane HEMORUM Seuss teen - dma...lunar near side, probably the most frequently used lunar chart, published by the U.S. Air Force (AcIc) in...A, Apollo landings; L, Luna landings; R, Ranger impacts; S, Surveyor landings. ‘Lo a Rocky Moon A Geologists...Exploration Don E. Wilhelms The University of Arizona Press Tucson & London The University of Arizona Press |
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| - Printed In The Netherlands PRELIMINARY PETROGRAPHIC OF THE APOLLO DESCRIPTION 17 S T A T I O N...and 77115 are pIgeonite feldspathlc basalts. On the basis of geologic and petrographic evidence, 77115...before being engulfed In the vesicular 77135. The Impact or Igneous origin of the melts from which these...clasts of orthopyroxene and calcic plagloclase. The orthopyroxene clasts contain coarse exsolved blebs...blebs of auglte, suggesting a deep-seated origin The major, minor, and trace element compositions of 77135 |
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| identified and mapped from differences in TiO2 wt%. The ages of these units have been inferred from their...isotopically dated Apollo samples. It has been found that FeO and TiO2 wt% of the units do not show any...any apparent trend with time. However, the oldest units have much greater variation in FeO and TiO2 wt%...ones. No lateral trend in the age of the basaltic units is apparent within the basin. A vertical profile...has been produced based on the depth of basalt within impact craters. The minimum depth of basalt has |
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| The Moon - our sister planet Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin...https://archive.org/details/moonoursisterplaOOOOcado The Moon — our sister planet PETER H. CADOGAN CAMBRIDGE...ROCHELLE Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington...publication data Cadogan, Peter H. The Moon - our sister planet 1. Moon I. Title 523.3 QB581 80-41564 ISBN... Contents Preface v page vii The Moon from a distance 1 1.1 Why study the Moon? 1 1.2 Basic motion and |
