The Moon has small glass fragments discovered during the Apollo mission. These beads range in color from bright orange to yellow-green. Formed 3.3 to 3.6 billion years ago, they reveal the Moon's ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet ...

As Ogliore explained, each glass bead tells its own story of the moon's past. The beads—some shiny orange, some glossy black—formed when lunar volcanoes shot material from the interior to the ...

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 ...

Not Everything On The Moon Is Gray – What Are These "Amazing" Orange Glass Beads? A dash of color is always a good choice when one sports a monochromatic look. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti ...

Learn more about these shimmery, orange and black beads on the moon that researchers describe as “tiny, pristine” time capsules.

A later variation appeared in a book, titled The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins (1614-1672), an English ...

The story of these glass beads begins with explosive volcanic activity that would have been spectacular to witness. The beads formed when lunar volcanoes shot material from the interior to the surface ...