NASA Photo ID: S71-43052           File Name: 10075774.jpg
Film Type: 120mm                   Date Taken: 08/13/71
Title: View of container of green-colored lunar soil in Lunar Receiving Laboratory
Description:
A close-up view of a container full of green-colored lunar soil in the 
Non-Sterile Nitrogen Processing Line (NNPL) in the Lunar Receiving
Laboratory  (LRL) at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). This sample,
broken down into  six separate samples after this photo was made, was made
up of comprehensive  fines from near Spur Crater on the Apennine front. The
numbers  assigned to the sample include numbers 15300 through 15305.
Astronauts David  R. Scott and James B. Irwin took the sample during the
second extravehicular  activity (EVA), at a Ground Elapsed Time (GET) of
146:05 to 146:06.              
Subject terms:
APOLLO 15 FLIGHT                        
APOLLO PROJECT                          
LABORATORIES                            
LUNAR ROCKS                             
LUNAR SOIL                              
SAMPLES                                 

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