The tiniest of impact craters

(jatan.space)

10 points | by vinnyglennon 3 days ago ago

5 comments

  • perihelions 2 days ago

    Are what appear to be concentric wrinkles centered on the impact, artifacts of it? Like it was momentarily fluid and there are ripples on the surface of a lake.

    • KyleBerezin 2 days ago

      Conchoidal fracture. The particle is probably a piece of obsidian or some other glass-like solid.

  • KyleBerezin 2 days ago

    It is cool how many researchers around the world are still analyzing moon rocks from Apollo.

  • more_corn a day ago

    This (in addition to cosmic radiation) is why we will probably not have bases on the surface of the moon. We’ll need some mass over our heads to survive.