Geological Chronicle
Sharp-Apollo is a small crater in Oceanus Procellarum, located southwest of where Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed the Lunar Module Intrepid on November 19, 1969. During the mission, the crew referred to the feature simply as Sharp, before the International Astronomical Union formally adopted the name Sharp-Apollo in 1973. Larger craters such as Bench lie to the east, while Head and Surveyor craters sit further to the northeast.
Sharp crater has a rim elevated 0.66 m high, composed of high-albedo material splashed out radially that is softer than normal regolith. The Apollo 12 Preliminary Science Report noted that the crater appears to have just barely penetrated the regolith, leaving a floor terrace probably controlled by subregolith bedrock at a depth of approximately 3 m. A core tube driven into the rim penetrated the ejecta without difficulty.
Conrad and Bean excavated a small trench on the east side of Sharp crater to collect soil and core samples. From the bottom of the trench, they collected sample 12023 in a Lunar Environment Sample Container, followed by drive tube sample 12027. They also collected sample 12024 from the top of the trench using a Gas Analysis Sample Container.