Glass beads full of water on the moon: what does the discovery mean for space exploration?
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The Recent Discovery of Glassy Beads
The Chinese National Space Agency sent a mission to the moon in 2020 called Chang'a 5. It brought about 1.7 kilograms of new lunar samples back to Earth. And that is what our scientists have been busy analyzing since then. Our particular study looked at things called glassy beads. They formed when actually any impactor hits the surface of the moon and creates melting of the material, whatever it hits.
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