Moon rock

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Moon rock or lunar rock is rock originating from Earth's Moon. This includes lunar material collected
during the course of human exploration of the Moon, and rock that has been ejected naturally from the
Moon's surface and landed on Earth as meteorites

The two most common kinds are basalts and anorthosites. The lunar basalts, relatively rich in iron and
many also in titanium, are found in the maria. In the highlands the rocks are largely anorthosites, which
are relatively rich in aluminum, calcium, and silicon.

There are three main surface features of the Moon: highlands, maria, and craters. The highlands, which
are old mountains made of igneous rocks, make up about 83 percent of the Moon's surface. Maria are
the dark areas that we see when we look at the Moon from Earth.

plagioclase

The Moon is dominantly composed of silicate minerals. Typically, plagioclase is by far the most abundant
and there commonly are substantial amounts of pyroxenes and olivines. Together, these three mineral
groups usually, but not always, make up >95% of the crystalline material in the rock and the regolith.

Lunar rocks are in large part made of the same common rock forming minerals as found on Earth, such
as olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase feldspar (anorthosite). Plagioclase feldspar is mostly found in the
lunar crust, whereas pyroxene and olivine are typically seen in the lunar mantle.