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Confirming glass structures on the moon part one

The only "glass" on the moon I'm aware of and have read about is of meteorite impact melt origin, or possibly from ancient (or current?) volcanic activity involving rapid melting.

When a meteor strikes the lunar surface the energy is so great that it partially melts the immediate area around the impact spot. Sometimes the reflective glass particles are spread out from the impact zone in highly visible "rays", or "spokes".

"Clifford Simak set a novelette The Trouble with Tycho [bottom center], at the lunar crater. He also postulated that the crater's rays were composed of volcanic glass (tektites) akin to a theory postulated by NASA researchers Dean Chapman and John O'Keefe in the 1970s."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_(lunar_crater)

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Self correction...

I wrote: “The only “glass” on the moon I’m aware of and have read about is of meteorite impact melt origin, or possibly from ancient (or current?) volcanic activity involving rapid melting.”

Make that “...rapid COOLing”

Because when melted rock cools quickly crystals don’t have time to form and the resulting rock has a glassy texture.

(Granitic) Obsidian or Basaltic glass from rapidly cooled surface lava flows are formed in this way.

[MikelTackNailer]

Your post 32, meteor impacts are going to lay some concentrated minerals about with a near non-existent atmosphere. Duh.

But I'm a big fan that the moon is a hollow artificial construct and it's dark side is the ET base of operations.