The Moon's Glass Was Forged in Fire
Lunar glass records violence. The glass Apollo astronauts found in lunar soil was not broken window material, but rock that had melted and cooled so quickly that its atoms could not arrange themselves into crystals. Disorder became the archive. Through this process, called quenching, eruptions and meteorite impacts left evidence in grains small enough to disappear among the dust.Appearance can mis...More
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