Tungsten

Locality: Luna 24 landing site, Mare Crisium, The Moon

SEM image of the fragment of lunar silicate glass particle from coarse fraction of regolith. Bright in BSE grain is native Tungsten aggregate overgrow carboniferous film covering the glass. Associating minerals located near this grain (within about 30 μm circle) are native molybdenum, copper, nickel and chromium. Depth of sampling is about 86 cm from Moon surface. Collection of Lunar regolith belonging to IGEM RAS. Andrei V. Mokhov photo.

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Photo added: 5th Jul 2008

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