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NLSI’s team at Brown/MIT finds new rock type on the Moon
“These are very unusual areas,” said NLSI team member Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at Brown University in Providence, R.I., who reported the finding November 2 at a meeting of the Geological Society of America.
Pieters has dubbed the new rock type OOS, because it is rich in the minerals orthopyroxene, olivine and [...]
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Water ice and other frozen volatiles are to be found in many shadowed craters near the lunar poles.
