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No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...
When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been associated with Earth’s closest neighbor. What they didn’t expect to ...
The scientists say the glass beads formed recently or were only recently exposed. The top inch of the lunar regolith gets covered in less than 100,000 years, “indicating the globules might be ...
The bead, just a fraction of an inch wide, was among the 3.7-pound (1.7-kilogram) cache of rock and soil collected by the Chang'e-5 lander in 2020 from Oceanus Procellarum, or the "Ocean of Storms ...
But this bead is truly still, regardless of whether you are judging it as a human or a dust mite. And at this level of stillness, our conventional wisdom about motion breaks down, as the bizarre ...
Glass beads on the surface of the Moon could provide a readily accessible source of water for future missions, an analysis of soil samples from the Chinese Chang'e-5 mission suggests.
About 3.8 pounds (1.7 kg) of soil were collected in the Chang'e-5 mission, with 32 glass beads - tens to hundreds of micrometers wide - examined in the study from the small amount of soil made ...