These tiny glassy spheres are a 340-fold magnification of the lunar soil that Apollo 17 astronauts found in a crater in the Taurus-Littrow Valley of the moon.
These tiny glassy spheres are a 340-fold magnification of the lunar soil that Apollo 17 astronauts found in a crater in the Taurus-Littrow Valley of the moon.
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So are these impactites?
I thought particulates on the moon were primarily sharp and rigid? How are these rounded without any wind or erosion?