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Writer Fuel: Scientists Finally Discover Origin of Little Glass Beads From the Moon

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lunar glass beads - NASA

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 … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Is Much of the Moon’s Water Locked inside Glass Beads?

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Spherules from an 800,000-year-old meteor impact found in the Transantarctic Mountains. Similar beads on the moon may contain billions of tons of buried water, new research suggests. (Image credit: Van Ginnekan, Genge and Harvey 2018, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)

Chinese researchers may have discovered billions of tons of water inside strange glass spheres buried on the moon, and they could be used as a future water source for moon bases, a new study suggests. The tiny glass spherules, collected in lunar soil samples and brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 mission in December 2020, … Read more