Missions - Apollo 11 Samples - Lunar Apollo 11 carried the first geologic samples from the Moon back to Earth In all, astronauts collected 21 6 kilograms of material, including 50 rocks, samples of the fine-grained lunar regolith (or "soil"), and two core tubes that included material from up to 13 centimeters below the Moon's surface
Lunar Rocks - National Air and Space Museum Perhaps the most dramatic result of this research was the more than 800 pounds of lunar rock and soil that were returned to Earth for analysis These samples from the Moon offered a deeper appreciation of the evolution of our nearest planetary neighbor
Astropedia - Moon Apollo Lunar Sample Photographs Product Information: This set of archive volumes contains digital scanned versions of original film photographs of rock, soil, and core samples collected from the lunar surface during the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 missions