#Lava is a mixture of minerals

Harriened lava is called #basalt. It usually contains a small number of visible #crystals, as in this piece. See those flecks of green? They're crystals of a mineral called #olivine

ingenieur.de:
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Rätsel um Mond-Magnetfeld gelöst: Apollo-Proben führten in die Irre

Titanreiche Mondgesteine erklären den Streit ums Magnetfeld. Neue Analyse korrigiert jahrzehntelange Fehlinterpretationen.
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".. glauben nun, dass das Magnetfeld des Mondes während des größten Teils seiner Geschichte schwach war .."

https://www.ingenieur.de/technik/fachbereiche/raumfahrt/raetsel-um-mond-magnetfeld-geloest-apollo-proben-fuehrten-in-die-irre/

26.2.2026

#Apollo #Basalt #Bodenprobe #DynamoEffekt #Magnetfeld #Mond #Mondgestein #moon #Planetengeologie #Titan

Hehehe I went on #Resonite, started a session and explored a random world

On Linux with my Windows Mixed Reality headset!

There were huge caveats but it worked :D If anyone had seen me I would have looked all shaky and also could only turn right :p

Thanks to the good folks at #Envision, #Monado, #Basalt, that person that forked Monado to add support for 6DoF tracking of WMR controllers)

Also #xrizer for games that don't support OpenXR

Hand sample and thin section of a pillow rind and interior from Palaeogene lavas of eastern Baffin island. The solidifying melt continued to exsolve gas bubbles, trapped in the pillow interior by the rind.

#ThinsectionThursday #BaffinIsland #Basalt #Geology

Basalt & Lava © Jan Erik Waider

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via pangeen

#photography
#basalt
#lava