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Apollo 11 Moon Rock — Apollo 11 Moon Rock
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their lunar module (the "Eagle") in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. They recovered a number of rock samples from this crater and returned them to Earth, including the lava basalt illustrated below.