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Fiery Orange Gems From The Moon Reveal Secrets of Its Violent Past The beads formed when lunar volcanoes shot material from the interior to the surface, where each drop of lava solidified instantly in the cold vacuum that surrounds the moon Full Moon photograph taken 10-22-2010 from Madison, Alabama, USA Photographed with a Celestron 9 25 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (Gregory H Revera)
Apollo Astronauts Found Orange Glass Beads on the Moon, Scientists Now . . . When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface covered in gleaming orange glass beads Tiny grains, about as small as a pencil tip, are left over from giant volcanic eruptions more than 3 5 billion years ago
Moon volcanoes left sparkling clues behind in tiny glass beads - Earth. com These glass beads reveal that the Moon’s volcanic past was more dynamic than previously assumed Rather than being geologically quiet, ancient eruptions threw material high into space, cooled it instantly, and preserved complex gas chemistry