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The Moon is a Homely Mistress

July 14, 2009
Conscience Continuum
Dennis Overbye writes:

Denton S. Ebel, a rambling, friendly geologist, led me to a display in the hall of meteorites, where three Moon rocks were encased in cubes of plastic. They were about the size of walnuts. The first lesson you learn about Moon rocks is that nobody ever touches them.

The most amazing thing about these rocks was that they looked just like rocks. They weren’t green or twisted in weird shapes or glowing. Two of them were basalts. They looked like gray sponges, the... RSS Share it

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