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This piece of Moon rock was cut from the 'Great Scott' rock that Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott picked from the Moon's surface in August 1971. The rock is made of olivine basalt and was part of an ancient lava flow, formed billions of years earlier when single-celled life had barely begun on Earth.

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This piece of Moon rock was cut from the 'Great Scott' rock that Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott picked from the Moon's surface in August 1971. The rock is made of olivine basalt and was part of an ancient lava flow, formed billions of years earlier when single-celled life had barely begun on Earth.