Surveyor V Finds Basalt on the Moon
DEC 01, 1967
DOI: 10.1063/1.3034062
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?
© 1967. American Institute of Physics
