#moon rocks

[gummi-stims]

Slime scooping from pilotslime on tiktok!

[mindblowingscience]

A fresh analysis of moon rocks brought home during the Apollo missions has, for the first time, revealed the presence of hydrogen. This finding suggests future astronauts could someday use water available right on the moon for life support and rocket fuel. Researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), to whom NASA provided the lunar samples for a research study, announced last week that they discovered hydrogen in lunar soil sample 79221. The detected hydrogen is thought to have been brought into existence by incessant showers of solar wind, and even comet strikes, on the moon. "Hydrogen has the potential to be a resource that can be used directly on the lunar surface when there are more regular or permanent installations there," study lead author Katherine Burgess, a geologist at NRL, said in a statement. "Locating resources and understanding how to collect them prior to getting to the moon is going to be incredibly valuable for space exploration. Per one NASA estimate, it would cost thousands of dollars to launch a bottle of water to the moon. So to cut costs, ice on the moon can be used in-situ as water for astronauts — and, in fact, may also be broken down into its components (hydrogen and oxygen) to be used as rocket fuel for journeys between the moon and Earth. Perhaps it can be used to bring humans to Mars as well someday; perhaps beyond.

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[loubella77]

Joint time hehe

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

I have a gift for Moony! *puts a few moon rocks in front of the little fairy* here you go!

Oh, how lo-

*snatched*

-vely... er... Moon appreciates the gift.

[jimslapass]

What should we name these moon rocks??

[dragonswhomstyeet]

Cave Johnson here: Notice to all employees of Aperture science. Please stop referring to the pipe system for conversion gel as ‘cum tubes’. You’re making the testing bots uncomfortable. They refuse to interact with the gels and it’s skewing results. Employees found using this term will be automatically reassigned to Gel testing. Ok. We’re done here. You perverted bastards…

[willowylady]

Incredible still from David Bowie short film Blackstar, dir. Johan Renck, 2016. Pictured is French actress Elisa Lasowski

[gremtokes]

🌕🌜🌝

[foreignwhiteboy]

Moon rocks 🌕 and kitty 🐈‍⬛

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In honor of Moon Landing Day, I'm considering buying some lunar regolith simulant. Real moon rocks are in, shall we say, limited supply, but you can buy Earth-made stuff that is nearly indistinguishable from the real deal from the University of Central Florida. It's not cheap, something like fifty or sixty bucks per kilo for the good stuff, well over a thousand per kilo for the REALLY good stuff, and they don't sell it by the gram (you can get 100g of the really good stuff, or 10g of the crap stuff), so you'll really want to think it over before committing. It's mostly bought by universities to study the effects of sandblasting their instruments with Moon dust or Mars dust, but I think it would be neat to have a jar full of the stuff as a paperweight. It's a high fidelity facsimile, which is up my alley, but I don't know if I want it enough to justify the price tag. $60 is close to a week worth of food for me, so maybe I'll save up and get some for Christmas instead, just in time for Apollo 17's Moon Landing Day (December 11).

[covenawhite66]

The rocks are located near an area named Reiner Gamma, the small group of meter-sized rocks stood out because they are covered in a layer of dust with special reflective properties.

This will help us understand how moon dust moves and about magnetic properties on the moon.

Discovery of a Dust Sorting Process on Boulders Near the Reiner Gamma Swirl on the Moon

Journal of Geophysical Research: PlanetsVolume 129, Issue 1 e2023JE007910 Research Article

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007910

From a database of lunar fractured boulders

After a photo-geologic investigation and determined that the features correspond to a dust mantling on top of boulders with a unique photometric behavior.

[alicelostinlust]

The bouncing helps the coughing

[timesnewfishcat]

moon rocks :D

[chillin-in-limbo]

original OG 🌝🌿💨💙

[starmothpress]

Available in my Etsy shop

Marked down!

https://mothandmagick.etsy.com/listing/1474927584

[that-one-fluffy-anon]

I’ve- uh- seen people do this, so-

So

Uh

@valentines-cryptid​, I don’t know why, but Moon Rocks is so fricking cool. They just give me theater vibes, even though they have a train- so I- uh- did a thing-

This was originally made for artfight. FIRST ATTACK FROM ME!!! THERE WILL BE MANY MORE HEHE

Anyway here’s this-

*runs*