[HN Gopher] Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal ...
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Tiny orange beads found by Apollo astronauts reveal Moon's
explosive past
Author : anigbrowl
Score : 20 points
Date : 2025-06-22 22:09 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sciencedaily.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sciencedaily.com)
| pixelpoet wrote:
| Really, they couldn't afford to put even a token image in there?
| ScienceDaily really is a trash publication, and ofc not just for
| this.
|
| "We have discovered these truly beautiful samples of
| extraterrestrial material, absolutely incredible to behold,
| breathtaking in its glistening crystaline appearance, one of the
| finest samples we've ever seen... anyway here's an Excel
| spreadsheet and a bunch of academic references."
|
| Nevermind, at least the original source comes through:
| https://source.washu.edu/2025/06/why-the-moon-shimmers-with-...
| dylan604 wrote:
| From your link, "the researchers extracted beads from deep
| within samples". Which made me laugh as earlier they stated,
| "The beads, each less than 1 mm across," so deep here is
| relative.
|
| I went to TFA to see if there were additional data, as the
| article didn't mention what the analysis results were to see
| what the beads were made of, yet it's an exact copy.
| pimlottc wrote:
| > From your link, "the researchers extracted beads from deep
| within samples". Which made me laugh as earlier they stated,
| "The beads, each less than 1 mm across," so deep here is
| relative.
|
| What's contradictory about this? The beads are small and they
| taken from underneath the surface: [0]
|
| > These black glass beads were collected in a double drive
| tube during Apollo 17 from a depth of ~0.5 m on the south rim
| of Shorty Crater.
|
| 0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103
| 52...
| dylan604 wrote:
| "deep within the samples"
|
| not samples taken from deep in the lunar surface--is .5m
| really deep though
|
| they were concerned the surface of the samples would be
| contaminated by earth's atmosphere. regardless of where the
| samples were taken in regards to the moon's surface, they'd
| still need to be worked here on earth's surface. so they
| are taking their samples from within each bead from the
| "depths" of the 1mm bead and not just scratching something
| off the bead's surface.
|
| Edit: I finally read "extracted beads from deep with in
| samples" correctly. ::face-palm::
| teddyh wrote:
| Articles only need click-bait titles, not pictures, in order to
| be profitable. Relevant and informative pictures are an
| unecessary expense. People don't read articles to be informed,
| people read articles to feel smart. And to just _feel_ smart,
| you don't actually need a picture.
| quesera wrote:
| More to the point -- even if there were no pictures, I'm sure
| the ads loaded successfully.
|
| For those who browse without protection, at least.
| shayway wrote:
| Apollo 17 astronauts discovering orange on the moon [0]. Probably
| my favorite recording from any Apollo mission. Their childlike
| glee is infectious.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipj1aFZxTt0
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