A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered during a 2023 digitization project in Bavaria, pointed curators toward a shoebox of lemon‑yellow fragments that had sat unnoticed for decades. Roland Eichhorn of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) led the modern hunt that followed, and his team …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA’s Artemis mission will deploy advanced tools to explore the moon’s south polar region. 🔍 The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) will carry two instruments to detect minerals and map the lunar surface. 🛰️ The Ultra-Compact Imaging Spectrometer will orbit the moon to assess surface water and human impact. 🌑 These efforts aim to uncover lunar secrets …
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