The lunar orange glass is a fascinating aspect of lunar geology, offering valuable insights into the Moon's history.

When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

The oxide glass beads are fortified with nutrients such as phosphorus, calcium, and potassium Adapted from ACS Agricultural Science & Technology, 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00243 View 1 Image ...

Furthermore, the beads were made of a type of glass not seen in Britain before. ... Forty-nine of these cutting-edge glass beads found their way 2,800 miles to Must Farm.

In 2020, China's Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples contain countless tiny beads of glass, created when asteroids hit ...

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 ...

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 ...