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Science 16 November 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4113, pp. 672 - 680
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4113.672
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Geologic Exploration of Taurus-Littrow: Apollo 17 Landing Site

Apollo Field Geology Investigation Team

Apollo 17 landed in a deep graben valley embaying the mountainous highlands southeast of the Serenitatis basin. Impact-generated breccias underlie the massifs adjacent to the valley, and basalt has flooded and leveled the valley floor. The dark mantle inferred from orbital photographs was not recognized as a discrete unit; the unusually thick regolith of the valley floor contains a unique high concentration of dark glass beads that may cause the low albedo of much of the surface.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Apollo and the geology of the Moon: Twenty-eighth William Smith Lecture.
H. H. SCHMITT (1975)
Journal of the Geological Society 131, 103-119
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Lunar Surface: Identification of the Dark Mantling Material in the Apollo 17 Soil Samples.
C. Pieters, C. Pieters, T. B. McCord, M. P. Charette, and J. B. Adams (1974)
Science 183, 1191-1194
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Apollo 17 Lunar Samples: Chemical and Petrographic Description.
P. W. Gast and Apollo 17 Preliminary Examination Team (1973)
Science 182, 659-672
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Apollo 17 Report on the Valley of Taurus-Littrow: A geological investigation of the valley visited on the last Apollo mission to the moon.
H. Schmitt and H. H. Schmitt (1973)
Science 182, 681-690
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