Moon rock

Behold a moon rock. These ordinary-looking rocks were objects of intense fascination for the public as well as for the scientists who actually got to scrutinize them. NASA described this one at the time as "a granular, fine-grained, mafic (iron magnesium rich) rock...[that] appears similar to several igneous rock types found on Earth."

July 17, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: NASA

| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings

 

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