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PHOTO MICROGRAPH - LUNAR SAMPE 10022
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S69-47900 (September 1969) --- This is a photo micrograph of lunar sample 10022. Magnification one inch equals one-tenth millimeter. The light blue and white mineral is plagioclase. The black is ilmenite, and the blue and/or green and/or orange and/or yellow and/or red mineral is pyroxene. The large pyroxene is a phenocryst that had been partially resorbed. The lunar samples collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePHOTO MICROGRAPH - LUNAR SAMPE 10022. NASA/JSC, 1969-08-28. Public domain. ID: S69-47900.
