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Chemical evolution of the Moon and the terrestrial planets

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Knowledge of the chemical evolution of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars and the contributions to this knowledge from space missions vary greatly from body to body. Without doubt the Moon is a very special case. The six Apollo missions that landed there returned a total of 381.7 kg of lunar material. The first of these missions was launched on 16 July 1969 and returned to Earth on 24 July 1969. It was followed by Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17, the last of which was launched on 7 December 1972. Apollo 15, 16, and 17 carried a rover vehicle that extended the range of the astronauts considerably. During the Apollo 17 mission the rover covered a total of 30.5 km. The Russian uncrewed missions Luna 16, Luna 20, and Luna 24 returned about 370 g of lunar material. The robot rover of the Luna 17 mission traveled 10.5 km in 322 days and that of Luna 21 traveled 37 km in 139 days. In addition, 13 lunar meteorites totaling 4.1 kg have been recognized and studied thoroughly.

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Wänke, H. (2001). Chemical evolution of the Moon and the terrestrial planets. In: Bleeker, J.A.M., Geiss, J., Huber, M.C.E. (eds) The Century of Space Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0320-9_56

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