Scientists baffled by rust on the moon

ellen Sun, 03/24/2024 - 20:20
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The blue areas in this composite image from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter show water concentrated at the Moon’s poles. Homing in on the spectra of rocks there, researcher found signs of hematite, a form of rust.
Credits: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Brown University/USGS 1 2

Strange Moon Of Asteroid Dinkinesh Is Weirder than Thought After NASA Probe Finds 'Contact Binary'

Site Admin Tue, 11/14/2023 - 21:33
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"We never suspected anything so bizarre!"

By Brett Tingley

November 7, 2023

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Note from Pastor Kevin Lea: 

Those who have taken college level orbital physics courses can appreciate why NASA scientists are saying, "It is puzzling, to say the least," and “I don't understand why the two components of the satellite have similar sizes. This is going to be fun for the scientific community to figure out."

Decades ago, NASA scientists considered it “bizarre” when they found Asteroids and Comets with moons. Then it was “bizarre” when they found that some Asteroids and Comets were actually contact binaries. Now they find an Asteroid with a contact binary moon and not just a contact binary, but a barely-touching-each-other contact binary.