The Earth is still tectonically active and because Earth has weather. The tectonic activity refreshes the crust as some plates are forced under others, removing old rock from the surface, and things like the sea floor spreading and volcanic activity producing all new crust. Additionally, the weather on the Earth constantly works to erode existing crust and wash it into the oceans.
The moon is neither terctonically active nor is there weather. The moon is, in planetary science terms, dead. There is no process to remove old surface rocks and replace with new ones.
The Earth has lots of tectonic activity, by which I mean earthquakes and volcanoes, which the moon does not have. Rocks can survive longer on the moon.
The following Apollo mission each brought moon rocks back to earth, they were Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
about 860 kilos
Yes Apollo 11 brought back moonstones and the the other things used for experiments.
All of the missions that actually landed brought back moon rocks . These were the missions of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. The Apollo 17 mission was of particular importance geologically, because one of the astronauts, Harrison Schmidt, was a geologist.
The Earth has lots of tectonic activity, by which I mean earthquakes and volcanoes, which the moon does not have. Rocks can survive longer on the moon.
The two things brought back to earth by Apollo 11 were moon stones and moon dust.
The following Apollo mission each brought moon rocks back to earth, they were Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
about 860 kilos
Yes Apollo 11 brought back moonstones and the the other things used for experiments.
The Lunar craft crashed on the moon, they did not bring it back to earth.
no probe has been able to actually bring back things to earth they are able to transmit data back to earth but not samples of rock and such, if your thinking of moon rocks then they were brought back in the Apollo missions in the 1960s
The Earth is still tectonically active and because Earth has weather. The tectonic activity refreshes the crust as some plates are forced under others, removing old rock from the surface, and things like the sea floor spreading and volcanic activity producing all new crust. Additionally, the weather on the Earth constantly works to erode existing crust and wash it into the oceans.The moon is neither terctonically active nor is there weather. The moon is, in planetary science terms, dead. There is no process to remove old surface rocks and replace with new ones.
It was the first time a damaged spacecraft of M.A.S.A as brought back to earth safe.
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In total, 381.7 kg of rock was brought back to the Earth from the moon during the Apollo missions, which were the only missions ever to land men on the moon.
All of the missions that actually landed brought back moon rocks . These were the missions of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. The Apollo 17 mission was of particular importance geologically, because one of the astronauts, Harrison Schmidt, was a geologist.