Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the moon and Earth

In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples contain countless tiny beads of glass, created when asteroids hit the moon and splashed out droplets of molten rock around the impact site.


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Source: Phys.org