A 142g sample of vesicular basalt collected by the Apollo 11 crew from the Moon's Sea of Tranquillity and returned to Earth in July 1969. The vesicles, or holes, in the sample are clearly visible in this image, which was captured at the museum of the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla near Canberra, Australia.

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