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Apollo 15 seeks ancient rocks

In 1971 the Apollo 15 astronauts were tasked with finding an original piece of the Moon, not the volcanic basalts previously returned to Earth. They discovered a piece of anorthosite, crystalline rock as old as the Earth. This sample came to be known as the Genesis Rock.

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