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Have you ever had a real 'wow' moment

looksee · 2012-02-25 13:44:22

If you are not sure, you haven't! And it doesn't have to be something that necessarily made sense in a logical way. Mine was a few years ago when I had the opportunity to hold and examine an original of a rare print book which I had been researching. The effect was astonishing, beautiful sunsets, glorious works of art, no…

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#52 09-06-2015 8:38am

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It looks like that because you are viewing it under polarised light. The polarised light allows you to more easily identify and pick out the minerals in a given piece of rock. This is exactly how it looked to me under the microsope, no photo enhancement. The thing that stood out for was how CLEAR and SHARPLY FORMED the crystals were.

This guy says the same thing. Basically the crystals pop out at you.
http://minerva.union.edu/hollochk/c_petrology/moon_rocks/12005.htm

This explains it better than I ever could.
http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/smith/Astro150/Labs/MoonRocks/

As far as I remember the moon was pretty much formed from the same material as the Earth was formed from, but it doesn't have as much water, and no plate tectonics, and no atmosphere so weathering is absent, no sedimentary rock due to lack of running or stagnant water. Moon rocks tend to be billions of years old, some of the stuff on the surface is reformed from meteor impacts as mentioned in the article.

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