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Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
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Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles of rocks and dust.
The Moon is covered in tiny orange glass beads. Now we know why.
When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the lunar surface, they expected to find grey rocks and dust. What they didn’t anticipate was discovering something that looked almost magical: tiny, brilliant orange glass beads scattered across the Moon’s landscape like microscopic gems. These beads, each smaller than a grain of sand, are actually ancient time […] The post The Moon is covered in tiny orange glass beads. Now we know why. appeared first o…
The Apollo astronauts did not know what they would find when exploring the lunar surface, but they did not expect to see accumulations of tiny pearls of bright orange glass between rocks and dust.
A recent study has shown that tiny lunar glass beads have mineral deposits on their surfaces that provide clues to lunar volcanic eruptions that occurred billions of years ago. Image courtesy of Grok To study these details, the researchers used modern technology that was not available during the Apollo missions. The main one was the NanoSIMS 50 instrument at Washington University in St. Louis, which can destroy samples of... The post Scientists …
Many think of a grey, dusty desert at the moon. But the Apollo astronauts discovered something unexpected between the craters and the canals more than 50 years ago: tiny, shiny glass beads - orange bright, round and foreign. (Continue reading)
Why the Moon Shimmers with Shiny Glass Beads
Using a variety of microscopic analysis techniques not available when the Apollo astronauts first returned samples from the moon, researchers have been able to take a close look at the microscopic mineral deposits on the outside of lunar beads. The unprecedented view of the ancient lunar artifacts was published in Icarus.
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