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Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes. The beads, measuring less than a millimeter (0.04 inches), were formed 3.3 ...

Tiny grains, about as small as a pencil tip, are left over from giant volcanic eruptions more than 3.5 billion years ago. Those raindrop-shaped beads were made from molten droplets that spouted during ...

Astronauts have discovered tiny glass beads, called “Moon beads,” in lunar soil brought back by the Apollo 17 mission. These beads are valuable to scientists to learn more about the Moon’s past.

When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been associated with Earth’s closest neighbor. What they didn’t expect to ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA 's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...

The glass beads formed between 3.3 and 3.6 billion years ago during volcanic eruptions on the young moon. When lava from inside the moon was blasted into space, the extreme cold caused the lava ...

Microscopic views of lunar volcanic glass. Credit: Katharine Robinson and G. Jeffrey Taylor, Nature Geoscience, 2014. When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the lunar surface, they expected to ...

More information: T.A. Williams et al, Lunar volcanic gas cloud chemistry: Constraints from glass bead surface sublimates, Icarus (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116607 Journal information: Icarus ...