Documentation of the Apollo 14 samples

This report was prepared to illustate the locations and lunar orientations of the documented samples returned by Apollo 14. It supersedes U.S. Geological Survey Interagency Report No. 27 (Swann et al., 1971a). Some of the illustrations are taken from the Preliminary Science Report ("Ninety-day report") submitted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by the Apollo Lunar Geology Investigation (S-059) team (Swann et al., 1971h).

Sample locations were determined from lunar surface photographs, from descriptions by the astronauts at the time of sampling, and from a correlation between sample bags in which the samples were returned and the traverse locations where those bags were used.

The lunar orientations of samples were determined from correlations between the samples, as seen in the LRL, with photographs taken on the lunar surface before the samples were collected. In several cases, NASA models of samples were used for the purpose of identification and orientation. Oblique lighting was used to reconstruct the approximate lunar orientations of identified samples (Sutton and Schaber, 1971).