Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan on the Moon

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 on the Moon in 1972.

Gene Cernan collected the sample from a landslip deposit that cascaded down into the Taurus-Littrow Valley. The Apollo 17 astronaut hammered a 70 cm long cylindrical tube into the surface to extract a core sample of the lunar soil.