Good morning America! You all seem thrilled about Biden’s moon rock. Its symbolism, of the scientific and exploratory achievements that have been made – and will ideally soon be surpassed – certainly hits home.
What you might not know is that rock has an *epic* backstory. 1/x
I don’t know if you know this, but you should: the Moon is a hole-punched volcanic crypt, a place sculpted by huge impacts and strange, epic effusions of lava. 3/x
Yeah, I know, right? Phwoar. 6/x
And for another 3.5 billion years or so, it sat there, occasionally knocked about by the odd micrometeorite. 16/x
And on their travels, they found a curious looking boulder, glinting in starlight. 17/x
That is why we must visit other worlds too, including Mars and Venus and beyond. They will tell us how we arrived at the present. 23/x
End.
(📸: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
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