Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon

Photo ID: S73-15171. Photo credit: NASA via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Victor Tangermann. Futurism: The Byte – June 19, 2025. Research article: Icarus.

Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: a vast number of tiny orange beads. As Universe Today reports, scientists have long proposed that these beads, each smaller than a grain of sand, date back to over three billion years ago, when volcanic eruptions on the now-inert natural satellite were still commonplace. […]

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