Abstract
The Luna program is not only the first artificial planet (Luna-1), the first hard landing on the surface of another celestial body (Luna-2), the first images of the Moon Far Side (Luna-3), the first soft landing and the first panoramas of the lunar landscape (Luna-9), the first artificial Moon satellite and the first gamma-ray survey of the lunar surface (Luna-10, Luna-12), and the first lunokhods (Luna-17, Luna-21). However, these are also lunar samples return by Luna-16, Luna-20 and Luna-24. The full cycle of lunar samples return is considered: drilling and soil sampling on the lunar surface, delivery, acceptance and primary processing of lunar soil in the ground-based receiving complex, research methods and the major scientific results. Studies revealed medium-titanium fine- and coarse-grained basalts in the Mare Fecunditatis, low-titanium and high-aluminum basalts in the Mare Crisium, and rocks of anorthosite-troctolite-norite series in a Highland region.
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