Anonymous ID: 2a93a8 Feb. 23, 2022, 12:03 p.m. No.15701401   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1426 >>1457 >>1459 >>1471 >>1586

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10542427/Chinas-Yutu-2-rover-spots-two-spheres-glass-moon.html

 

China's Yutu-2 rover spots two intact spheres of translucent GLASS on the far side of the moon that likely formed during lunar meteorite impacts

Images from Yutu-2 show tiny lunar 'spherules' of glass looking like ball bearings

Lunar glass will form when silicate materials are subjected to high temperatures

Volcanic glasses were returned by NASA Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s

Yutu-2 made the first soft landing on the far side of the moon on January 3, 2019

 

China's Yutu-2 rover has spotted two intact spheres of translucent glass up to an inch thick on the far side of the moon.

 

Images returned by the rover, which landed on the moon in January 2019, show the glass globules looking like a couple of tiny ball bearings.

 

Small glass 'spherules' are actually common on the moon, although they're typically less than 0.03 of an inch (3mm) in diameter.

 

These newly-found glass spheres are much bigger, measuring around 0.5-inch to 1-inch (1.5 cm to 2.5 cm), according to the scientists.

 

Glass forms on the moon when silicate material โ€“ rock-forming minerals โ€“ are subjected to high temperatures.

 

It's known that volcanic glass deposits were formed during explosive eruptions in the moon's history, when it was volcanically active.

 

Today, new glass can be formed on the moon due to the heat generated from impacts by meteorites with the lunar surface.

 

The new findings have been described in a paper authored by a team led by planetary geologist Zhiyong Xiao of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

 

'Transparent and translucent glasses on the Moon are less than 1 mm in diameters, and larger ones are dark and opaque,' they say.

 

'The globules were formed or exposed recently as evidenced by their intact shapes and surface exposure.'

 

Exact composition of the glass is yet to be determined, however.

 

'Glass is ubiquitous in lunar regolith, and volcanism and hypervelocity impacts are the major mechanisms of forming lunar glasses,' the team say.

 

'Volcanic glasses on the Moon occur as quenched skin of basaltic rocks or as glass spherules in pyroclastic deposits.'

 

Volcanic glasses were returned by NASA's Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s, although some of these were darker and larger than the spotted specimens โ€“ up to 1.5 inches thick.

 

This is not the first time Yutu-2 has come across odd lunar features โ€“ last year, it returned photos of a 'mystery hut' in the horizon, which researchers initially had trouble identifying.

 

On closer inspection, it was revealed in January that it was a rabbit-shaped rock, surrounded by its own rocky 'droppings' and morsels of food.

Anonymous ID: 2a93a8 Feb. 23, 2022, 12:06 p.m. No.15701420   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

The freedom trucks are a military operation. This is happening all over the world.

 

They are not clogging up the streets for "freedom from masks" - there is a bigger happening happening and they are key.