File:Sample 78236 Apollo 17.gif

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Italiano: Pietra lunare riportata dalla missione Apollo 17
English: Lunar Sample 78236, Apollo 17. This is a shocked norite from a boulder at Station 8, at the base of the Sculptured Hills.
This photo was used in Figure 7-13 of the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report (SP-330, 1973), which has the following caption:
Coarse-grained norite (sample 78236) with glassy-appearing plagloclase and crushed pyroxene. Note the dark glassy coating on the lower right side of rock. This glass occurs also as veins in the rock.

Another view of this sample is shown in Figure 6-39 of the same report, which has the following caption:

Glass-coated coarse-grained gabbroic rock (sample 78236) from shock-fluted, rolled boulder at station 8. The cube is 1 cm on the edge.
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