Matter
- Name
- lunar soil sample 78221_118
- Family
- solid
- Database
- Parent matter
- lunar soil sample 78220
- 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
- 78221,118
- Local reference code
- 78221
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- collected at Station 8, at base of Sculptured Hills, south of Wessex Cleft. 78220 (from which 78221 was subsampled) was collected from the regolith surface under a 2-3 m diameter norite boulder rolled over by the crew
- Preparation
- raw
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- superficial deposit
- Texture
- loose granular
- Type of porosity
- porous
- Comments
- 78221 = <1 mm sieved fraction of 78220