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...Solar System. It also opens up the possibility of extracting water from lunar rocks. And one reason why we can explore these fundamental questions is in large part due to these wonderful tiny fragments. How to use the Virtual Microscope Click on the options below to learn how you can examine the Moon rocks from the first Moon landing. Zooming in and out [Zoom in] You can...

...solar system (4.24 light years away), where recently a single planet was discovered, has 12% of the sun’s mass and is an ordinary (not ultracool) red dwarf. Telling transits In 2010, a group of scientists began monitoring the closest dwarf stars using a robotic telescope in Chile called TRAPPIST (the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope). They were...

...energy of what they are being transported in is pretty constant. Grains vary between being 1mm and 10cm in size. A ‘poorly sorted’ texture indicates the energy of what they are being transported in varies in time and space – sometimes it can move big heavy grains, other times only smaller grains. Environment of deposition. Sandy beach material that has been...