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This Apollo 17 field photograph shows the trench dug into orange soil at the rim of Shorty Crater and the sampling location of 74220 orange glass. NASA photo AS17-137-20990. |
The "Origin and Evolution of the Moon" course was organized and led by SSERVI teams at Brown University (SEEED) and the Lunar and Planetary Institute Center for Lunar Science and Exploration (CLSE). The 14 weekly sessions (September–December, 2018) featured lectures by leaders in the field of lunar science, with a capstone lecture by Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt. Shown here is a screen shot from the capstone lecture of the color-balanced Apollo 17 field photograph. Derivative photograph copyright 2018 by Tranquillity Enterprises, s.p. Courtesy of Tranquillity Enterprises, s.p. (See the reference to Wells and Schmitt, below, for more information.) All lectures are available for on-demand streaming: see the lecture schedule. |
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See Reference:
· Hui, H., Hess, K.-U., Zhang, Y., Nichols, A. R. L., Peslier, A. H., Lange, R. A., Dingwell, D. B., and Neal, C. R. (2018) Cooling Rates of Lunar Orange Glass Beads, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 503, p. 88-94, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.019. [abstract]
See also:
· Glass spherules from Apollo sample 74220,286 in plane and crossed-polarized light from the interactive Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences.
· Photography During Apollo from the NASA History Program Office.
· Wells, R. A. and Schmitt, H. H. (2018) Color-Balancing of in situ Documentation Photographs of the Apollo 17 Orange and Apollo 15 Green Volcanic Ashes, Paper No. 166-11, GSA Annual Meeting, [abstract and slides].
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