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Surveyor V Finds Basalt on the Moon

DEC 01, 1967
Physics Today

The wealth of information provided by Surveyor V’s successful journey to the moon includes an analysis of the surface rocks but still brings us no nearer to a solution of the biggest lunar problem: How was the moon formed? Did it break off the earth during our planet’s infancy; was it captured by the earth, or were the two bodies formed simultaneously?

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