Matter
- Name
- lunar soil sample 65700
- Family
- solid
- Comments
- in contrast to lunar soils such as 15040 and 78220, the mineralogical composition is not given in the lunar compendium
- Database
- Level
- from sample return mission
- Origins
- planetary
- Provider
- Apollo Sample Curator - Mail code KT - NASA Johnson Space Center - 2101 NASA Parkway - Houston, Texas 77058-3696 USA
- Provider reference code
- 65700
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- Station 5, interior of wall of a 20 m diameter crater. Surface soil to accompany rake sample
- Preparation
- raw
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- superficial deposit
- Comments
- Unsieved fines
- Shape
- granular
- Texture
- loose granular
- Type of porosity
- porous
- Grain sizes
-
Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 1.0 ${\mu}m$ 16000.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 irregular - Comments
- the average grain size is 58 microns (Graf 1993)
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $TiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $FeO$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $P_{2}O_{5}$ Mass fraction (%) 45.03 0.64 26.47 5.87 0.08 6.02 15.29 0.41 0.12 0.13 - Oxides comments
- data from LSPET72 in wt%, in Lunar Compendium