The Apollo Program and Amino Acids.

The article discusses information about amino acids provided by the Apollo lunar space program in the United States. It appears that the moon had a lawn of organic compounds that were destroyed by solar radiation. The findings from the moon have clarified another inference from the electric discharge experiments, which contained free amino acids at the end of the reaction. If the view is correct that the surface of the moon is baked-out with no residual organic compound of its own, the amino acid precursors represent the most complex known carbon compounds accumulated by an inert body in the solar system. The carbon compounds on the moon and in the meteorites have arisen by different cosmophysical processes.