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Scoop.it!
The last mineral thought to have been unique to the Moon has been discovered in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. 
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Scoop.it!
A mineral once found only on the moon has now been discovered in billion-year-old rocks in Australia. Tranquillityite is a mineral consisting of iron, zirconium, yttrium, titanium, silicon and oxygen. It is named after the moon's Sea of Tranquility, where it was first discovered on the Apollo 11 mission. Until now, it was only seen in samples returned from the moon, as well as in lunar meteorites — that is, rocks blasted off the moon's surface by cosmic impacts that crash-landed here. Now scientists have identified what appear to be terrestrial versions of tranquillityite in Western Australia
Ms. Moon's curator insight,
October 17, 2014 12:35 AM
Wow, moon rocks inside Earth rocks. Science rocks! |
