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Old March 10th 04, 09:32 PM
Jarvi
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Default Are the spherules similar on Moon and Mars?

The big surprize waiting astronauts on Moon was the fact that the moon
surface was covered by small
spherules. 382 kg of Moon rocks was brought back to earth. The spherules
were found to be glass. Both volcanic eruptions (also on Hawaian islands)
and especially meteoritic crater forming impacts throw huge amounts of
molten and gasfied crust material up into ballistic flight. As surface
tension is the main influencing factor forming the drops before they cool
and solidify rapidly, they become round glass balls. Mars is more like Moon
than Earth in size and gravity. Extremly thin Mars atmosphere helps to brake
down the falling speed so that a little bigger spheres survive there than on
the Moon. Why do we again wonder similar glass spheres on another small
planet like body

Antti Jarvi


 




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