standing on the ladder, responding to earlier concerns toshi -- responding to earlier concerns about the mission, and landing, armstrong actually commented in the life broadcast that the spacecraft had had not sunk into the soil. our next slide that shows what the soil looks like close up. the fine soil on the larger fragments, and the larger rock fragments that you see there were all fragments broken in the intense cratering that had hurled them to the site. there was nothing that we collected that came from bedrock , geologists are always taught they have to collect from bedrock, but there was no bedrock to collect from. great anticipation we examine that is our soil sample under the microscope, and began to start our tour of the moon. this next slide shows a handful of apollo 11 soil. it contains a wide variety of material. is originally very dusty, you have to blow it off to see these beautiful particles. in part, these are transported from a very great different distance by multiple cratering events. so this soil provides an answer to the first question always asked, what is the