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OCR: THE APOLLO EXPERIMENTS ALL THE APOLLO MISSIONS carried experiment packages to discover as much as possible about the Moon. Much of the equipment was left on its surface to continue collecting data after the astronauts had left. The Apollo Lunar Scientific Experiments Packages - ALSEPs - had their own power supplies and radio transmitters to send results back to Earth. Specially designed equipment was taken to the Moon to collect samples of rock and soil. Studies of the Moon rocks that were returned to Earth revealed EXPERIMENTS ON THE MOON that the Moon contains elements The ALSEPs investigated conditions near the Moon's surface and found that the similar to those found on the Earth. internal structure was similar to Earth's.