There have been a number
of Apollo missions the
first of them landed on
the moon in July 1969.
So we now have
a fairly large suite of
samples from
various locations on
the Moon of different types
of rock samples as well.
Here at Chico State we're
really really lucky
as geologists
because we try and bring
in experts as much
as possible or
samples so that
our students
get to experiences
wide event series
of rocks and
experiences as possible.
One of those
options is the
the Moon rocks from NASA
that's not a common thing.
That's not something
you get to see
that often you
maybe get to see
if you go to the
Natural History Museum
or something but
then it's behind
glass you never get
to interact
with thin sections
of moon rocks.
That's incredible.
It's such a special
experience for
the students to get
to play with these.
We study Moon rock as
geologists because
we're interested
in how the moon formed
and how our planet
formed and how
those things are related
was the moon tectonically
active like
the Earth currently
is right do we have
the plates moving
across the surface of it
and volcanic
processes occurring
it's a very unusual
experience.
So our students are really
lucky that we are able
to bring these to them
