Sample 14311

Compiled by  Eric M. Jones.
Last revised 27 February 2014.

 

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Sample Description, Lunar Sample Atlas

Breccia sample 14311 was collected during EVA 2 at station Dg. Lunar surface photographs were not taken and the orientation is estimated from surface pitting. Sample 14308 consisted of 3 pieces which PET found to have been part of 14311 and are included herein. These three pieces were renumbered 14311,26; 14311,64; and 14311,65. This sample is a gray coherent breccia which is broken into pieces along fractures. There are only a few fragments >1 mm (<5%) and the rock is mostly (95%) crystalline matrix.

Sample Collection

133:55:28 Mitchell: Yeah.  Let's...Hey, here's a whole batch of them right down here, Al.  Let's grab those.
133:55:34 Shepard: Which way, left or right?
133:55:35 Mitchell: Off to the left and ahead.  Around that little crater.  They're all from this same area.
133:55:42 Shepard: Houston.  Unable to see any stratigraphy in any of these craters.  The slumping has been such that it's pretty much destroyed.  (Pause)
133:55:56 Mitchell: I'll grab this one right here.
133:55:58 Shepard: May be evidence of...
133:56:00 Haise: Roger, Al.  And, positionwise, you're past Flank now.  Is that correct?  Or at least abeam position of Flank?
133:56:15 Shepard: No, we're not, Fredo.  No, we're not at Flank yet.  I'd say we're probably 15 minutes away from Weird.  Did you get it on board?
133:56:27 Mitchell: As a matter of fact, I think this is Flank right here.

[They were on the move for about two minutes before stopping to make this grab sample.  During the trip from Station C2 to Station E, their average speed will be about 67 meters/minute and, at that speed, they would have traveled about 135 meters since leaving C2, which would put them near the southeast rim of Flank Crater, immediately above the label 'Dg' on the
USGS map.  See, also, the segment diagram and a detail (0.6 Mb)  from the November 2009, 0.5 m/pixel LROC image.]

133:56:31 Shepard: Got it on board?
133:56:32 Mitchell: Yeah, I've got the rock on board.
133:56:33 Shepard: Okay, let's press.

 

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