After this, it's thought the Moon had cooled too much ... Three of those final six spherules had sulfur ratios inconsistent with impact glass. They had a hit – this was the volcanic glass.

The glass spherules, also known as impact glasses or microtektites, form when meteorites smash into the moon at tens to hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, blasting chunks of lunar crust ...

Tiny glass beads from Apollo missions reveal Moon's ancient volcanic eruptions through sparkling mineral coatings.

They also looked at remote sensing data of craters on the moon to determine which impact events might have thrown out the specific lunar glasses that they studied. These glass beads, obtained by ...

Tiny glass beads on the moon formed by meteoroid impacts might ... “This is a very important study: since the abundance of impact-produced spherules is high on the moon, as well as on several ...

“On the other hand, impact glass beads are distributed in the regolith globally on the Moon. Therefore, the impact glass beads can be replenished with water on the Moon’s surface and can ...

The solar wind rains down on the Moon, bringing a shower of protons (hydrogen nuclei). These atoms can interact with lunar minerals to form water molecules. The impact glass acts like a sponge ...

March 27 (Reuters) - Glass beads spawned in violent impacts from space rocks on the lunar surface have been found to have water trapped inside, offering what scientists describe as a potential ...

ADVERTISEMENT “Our direct measurements of this surface reservoir of lunar water show that impact glass beads can store substantial quantities of solar wind-derived water on the moon and suggest ...

A research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions ... groups of the lunar glass beads coincide precisely with the ages of some of the largest terrestrial impact crater events ...