A piece of rock found on the moon.
scientists have scrutinized moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions
mass noun inside a small pedestal is a smooth black chunk of moon rock
Example sentencesExamples
- The most famous moon rocks are those collected by astronauts who walked on the Moon.
- The leaded glass "Space Window" holds a sliver of moon rock.
- The Conference has been held every spring since 1970, when the first analyses of Apollo moon rocks became available.
- In addition to such specimens as moon rocks and a meteorite studded with tiny diamonds, the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites contains the Cape York Meteorite.
- Samples of moon rock and lunar dust landed at a local primary school last week.
- This moon rock is a breccia, meaning it is made from different types of rock that were broken up and then fused together by the pressure and heat of an asteroid impact.
- There was some real moon rock on display in the foyer.
- The moon rock samples were collected during Nasa's manned moon missions in the late 1960s and 1970s.
- Not many students get to look at lumps of moon rock!
- They analyzed them and found out that the moon rocks had magnetic properties.