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Unraveling Moon's volcanic history through tiny glass beads
Back in Apollo 17, astronauts picked up some tiny glass beads on the Moon—turns out, these little spheres are over 3 billion years old and hold secrets about ancient lunar volcanoes.
Because they formed during massive eruptions and stayed untouched by air or water, they're like mini time capsules from the Moon's fiery past.
NASA's Artemis mission could benefit from these findings
Researchers are now using high-tech tools like atom probe tomography and electron microscopes to study what's inside these beads.
What they find is helping us piece together how the Moon's volcanoes worked—and could even guide NASA's Artemis mission as it plans future landings in similar volcanic areas.