Precious Rocks

Moon Rock   (NASA photo)

Perhaps the most precious rocks on earth are not from earth.  Although diamonds are a girl’s best friend, moon rocks are a geologist’s best guess.

And here they are, 50 years later, still trying to figure out just what the moon is made of.  Cheese was ruled out long ago, so folks are now poking at lunar loot.

Hundreds of pounds of rocky samples were hauled back to earth during the Apollo era.  While Armstrong collected rocks, Aldrin was gathering dirt.      Rovers then literally picked up where humans left off.

There are now more than 100,000 such samples waiting to be analyzed.  Although some have already been studied, much more remains to be seen.  Today’s technology far exceeds that of the 1970s.

Resources

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/nasa-open-moon-rock-samples-sealed-apollo-missions-63951707

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