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> From your link, "the researchers extracted beads from deep within samples". Which made me laugh as earlier they stated, "The beads, each less than 1 mm across
by pimlottc 1y ago
> From your link, "the researchers extracted beads from deep within samples". Which made me laugh as earlier they stated, "The beads, each less than 1 mm across," so deep here is relative.
What's contradictory about this? The beads are small and they taken from underneath the surface: [0]
> These black glass beads were collected in a double drive tube during Apollo 17 from a depth of ∼0.5 m on the south rim of Shorty Crater.
0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352500154X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352...
- dylan604 1y ago"deep within the samples" not samples taken from deep in the lunar surface--is .5m really deep though they were concerned the surface of the samples would be contaminated by earth's atmosphere. regardless of where the samples were taken in regards to the moon's surface, they'd still need to be worked here on earth's surface. so they are taking their samples from within each bead from the "depths" of the 1mm bead and not just scratching something off the bead's surface. Edit: I finally read "extracted beads from deep with in samples" correctly. ::face-palm::