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Big Muley is a 11.7 kg (26 lb) [3] breccia, consisting mainly of shocked anorthosite attached to a fragment of troctolitic "melt rock". The rock's cosmic ray exposure age was discovered to be about 1.8 million years, linking it to ejecta, or debris, from the impact that formed South Ray crater, to the south of the Apollo 16 landing site.
The term Great Scott was in use as soon as the next mission, Apollo 16, because Charlie Duke used the term just before picking up Big Muley. [5] Big Muley is the largest sample (11.7 kg) returned from the Moon, and Great Scott is the second largest.
The pair drove the lunar rover, the second used on the Moon, for 26.7 kilometers (16.6 mi). On the surface, Young and Duke collected 95.8 kilograms (211 lb) of lunar samples for return to Earth, including Big Muley, the largest Moon rock collected during the Apollo missions.
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Troctolite 76535 is a coarse-grained plutonic rock that is believed to have had a slow cooling history. The rock originates from early in the Moon's history.Geologists have described it as a coarse-grained olivine-plagioclase cumulate with a granular polygonal texture. [2]