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In this chapter we review the results from the Apollo missions. With the availability of the samples, we immediately saw that they consisted of basalts, similar to those on earth, and breccias, which were the result of impacts. We also came face to face with the puzzle of lunar magnetism. Not only did the samples carry remanent magnetization (NRM), but surface magnetometers showed that there were fields at the various sites far larger than predicted by the earlier satellite measurements. Finally magnetometers on sub-satellites revealed that large regions of the lunar crust were magnetized. Yet there was no active lunar dynamo field at present. How did this magnetization arise?
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Apollo 11 Lunar Science Conference Issue, Science, 1970.
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NASA Sample Gallery.
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Courtesy NASA Photo S-69-47905.
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Courtesy Science at NASA. See also The lunar seismic network: Mission update, Neal. C.R., et al., 2004, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, XXXV, Abstract.
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Figure from Wikipedia. See also Taylor, G,J,. 1994, The Scientific Legacy of Apollo. Scientific American, 270, 6, 40–47. In this article there is a very useful summary of knowledge of the moon in a number of key areas before and after Apollo. The author also reminds us that ideas we will meet in the last chapter in this book on the origin of the moon, were anticipated by Reginald Daly in 1946.
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NASA Apollo 16 mission gallery.
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This convenient figure comes from “Lunar time scale” Wikipedia. For additional coverage Heiken G, Vaniman D, French BM (1991) Lunar sourcebook: a user’s guide to the moon, Lunar Science Institute, Cambridge University Press. Published just over 20 years after the Apollo 11 landings is the essential summary of early work and was followed by the updated comprehensive text New Views of the Moon eds. Joliff Bl, Wieczorek MA, Shearer CK, Neal CR (2006) Rev. Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 60, pages 721.
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Fuller, M. (2014). Advances in Lunar Science with Apollo. In: Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00278-1_5
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